It's the Day's Day of Days! Because where the wild roses grow.
So, aside from another serving of Mitch McConnell bashing, Sam not only sleeps through meetings, but she does so as the chairwoman.
In her first term.
Muir screams about government while not actually caring about it. Because in his mind smashing people he doesn't like is all it should do.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Mos Espa.
This is a strangely busy strip--we start with Sam getting even more unpleasant, and militarily so, and then segue into Governor Abbott becoming a heretic, and Muir once again fantasizing about his dreadful policies being put into action. We then reveal that this is all a dream, and it's an odd moment, because Muir seems to recognize that Sam's big accomplishments... well, don't add up to much in reality.
It's one of those odd moments of awareness peaking through.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Catholic Church. We've made some changes.
You know, this is pretty much every single 'The Gang Does REAL JOURNALISM" bit--a member of the cast gets access they shouldn't, faces a ludicrous straw version of a Democrat who babbles like an idiot, while the cast member still comes across as a fascist dingbat. It kind of emphasizes just why Muir tends to give up quickly on these plots.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Antony Tidkins.
It's kind of funny to watch Muir do the 'projecting his own fascism' thing AND the 'insisting it's a republic, not a democracy' thing sequentially, and not realizing that the former undermines the latter.
But then, Muir's made it perfectly clear he thinks he's for liberty because he wants everyone like him to be able to do whatever they like.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Wise Little Hen.
This is what Muir thinks waking up looks like. Vomiting up the same nakedly racist bullshit as he does.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Jeremiah was a bullfrog.
So, to reiterate, Muir likes breasts and guns.
Just, you know, in case we haven't gotten the point yet.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because just hold me now, because our love will light the way.
A lot to unpack there.
All of it bad.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Cynar.
He writes shit like this and means it. The lack of self-appraisal is epic.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because urgent emergency.
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It's kind of amazing how Muir never moves on from some subjects. They recede from view for a while, and then... they're back, all at once.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because row, row, row your boat.
I think this is one of those toxic bubble things that makes sense only if you're a crazy right-winger listening to crazy right-winger stuff.
And misunderstanding it.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Michael Radford.
It's fascinating, in a way, to see that Muir reveals the blubbery center of America's fascism. These are people who think they are strong because they've said constantly that they are strong, and imagine that's all there is to it, even as they constantly demonstrate their weakness, their self-indulgence, and their cowardice.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because a Comfortable Place on the Couch.
This is the work of a man who's had his belief that his ignorance and stupidity are not flaws but signs of his innate superiority reinforced by a diseased Right Wing media circus.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Henry Clay Frick.
Bits like this make you so glad Muir's never managed to spawn.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because John Hurt is Winston Smith.
It says something that Muir's own flaws of as an artist kept the full awfulness of yesterday's strip from being apparent. Something that today's strip has made up for.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because shake these hands.
You know, as awfully blocked and narratively incoherent as this is, at least Muir isn't being actively hateful.
Yet.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Charlston Comics.
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The amazing thing is how incoherent this is. It's bleakly fascinating how insular Muir world is these days--even on a subject as general as this, the strip is a dense, talky, oblique mess.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Wig Wam.
Ahh, remember when Muir was for this war?
He doesn't. Muir never acknowledges an about face. Just declares himself morally superior.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because we've seen the last of Good King Richard.
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Muir's self-satisfied awfulness oozes off this batch.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Mr. O'Malley.
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One day, this damn electoral seesaw this country is presently on will end, one way or the other. Muir's made it clear which way he'd prefer. It's way that would end with democracy dead, or more likely in temporary abeyance. It would also, I suspect, end with the hobbling of this nation, because reality is real, and the Right doesn't seem to grasp that.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Atlanta Freedom Festival.
Boy, Muir sure is showing imaginary straw leftists, for their hypocrisy and authoritarianism and awfulness and, yeah, yeah, it's all projection, let's move on.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because well, that happened.
Muir's ability to be a gullible putz as he searches for ways to be a bold contrarian never ceases to inspire... something.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because love, love, love.
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I'm trying to figure out which strip is more awful. It's tough.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Queen's Necklace.
...The fascinating thing is that Muir doesn't even seem to realize how nonsensical the conspiracy he's sketching is, a mass of destruction action for no discernible motive. Oh, Muir could doubtless produce a bizarre explanation for his evil "liberals" to do all this, based on his belief that they are fundamentally evil subhuman reptile people who like to do evil. But it would be the meaningless word salad of a man who doesn't think about things, but merely rationalizes his preexisting opinions. Ironically, Muir is closer to being this sort of malevolent figure who does only evil than those he hates, and yet it's quite clear he imagines that all his contrarian nonsense is righteous. Like every fascist, Muir has fallen further into his poisonous world view because it tells him what he wants to hear--that his worst impulses are actually good, that people who know more than him don't, that being a hateful, ignorant coward is how one is a clever and a brave man.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because it's Clement.
The eternal cry of the fascist. "How dare you defend yourself against me! I have a right to hurt people when I want to!" When they say law and order, they mean for everyone else. Their summary violence is of course, inherently righteous.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because bad ol' putty tat.
Muir's screaming about internal traitors and the decadent elite again I see.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because did you get the thing I sent you?
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Yeah, he just keeps going with this.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because target sighted.
Seriously, what the hell is the point of this storyline? What?
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Norfolk Shamrocks.
Meanwhile in the real world, Vermont is doing fine, the vaccines work and don't kill people, and Texas, after a great deal of macho posturing, is begging the federal government for help.
Reality. It doesn't go away when you stop believing in it.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the quest is on.
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This strip has really crawled up its own ass in its plotlines, hasn't it?
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because it got crazy.
You know, any sympathy I might feel for Muir in his inevitable covid case is now nil. Watching him gloat over the people who he imagines to be in danger, while he is safe and secure, demonstrates he's evil. Knowing it's actually the other way around demonstrates he's stupid.
That's Muir. Evil and stupid.
