A William Dudley Pelley American Patriot Award Nominated Strip.

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because I'm just a simple man.

Ahh, yes. Muir continues to quake at the empty nuclear threats of a fascist dictator who is failing at invading another nation. Muir has spouted constant nonsensical explanations of why abandoning Ukraine would be a good thing, and why he is clever to think these things. And in this strip, he declares that the cities being destroyed in his imagined war would be good, because they are filled with evil liberals, and thus deserve it.

The American Fash. Still stupid, cowardly, treacherous scum who think they're the good guys after all these years.

And Now For Some Bad Cheesecake.

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because ginger lace.

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Well, at least it's not more paranoid drivel. 

And is the daughter that was just spontaneously created, not aged up.

Remember, Internet Randos Are The True Source Of Wisdom!

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because he had a Brooklyn accent and a different personality.

So, China is plotting to destroy the Red States by... getting the government to pressure the Chinese-owned social media platform.

Those wily devils.

And When Everything Is Woke, Nothing Is.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because police on my back.

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At this point, it's easier to list the people who aren't members of the sinister conspiracy of evil.

They Are Not Super-Mature, Like Muir.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because put the lime in the coconut.

The dull regularity with which Muir and his ilk describe themselves when imagining they're describing their opponents is a thing.

"This Makes My Heroes Look Great!"

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because those evil-natured robots, they're programmed to destroy us.

The level of failure here is fascinating. First, Muir moves on from the awful, but at least dramatically effective first strip to this lengthy screed which does the great sin of explaining "the joke", in tedious detail. Secondly, of course, "the joke" is the equivalent of a KKK cross-burning, and the explanation is a hypocritical racist, homophobic, misogynistic, fascistic rant. And thirdly, just as yesterday, Muir writes his "villains" as utter morons to try and make his heroes look good and makes them transparent straw men, while making his heroes look like swaggering cowardly bullies.

Because they're fascists, written by a fascist, and being a cowardly bully is what a fascist thinks is courage.

He Knows That Soon They Will Destroy The Untermenschen!

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because King's Row.

Muir dreams of a revolution that doesn't exist against caricatures of his opponents who he imagines as impossibly weak, stupid and evil because he needs people worse than himself and his.

He Just Knows He'd Be A Total Boss In A Civil War!

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Sam the Sham.

There's that brittle fascist bluster, ready to turn into whining and shouts of unfair the moment it runs into someone who shoots back.

Ignorance, Arrogance, And Hypocrisy. All In Two Packages

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Wednesday, 3 AM.

 We go from Muir's typical blather about the French Revolution to his typical blather about the good and virtuous white guys and their good and virtuous way of life.

And as usual, Muir gives us a fine display of his utter lack of knowledge of the French Revolution--because, yeah, I'm sure that the Jacobins were really upset with the Ancient Regime suggesting they respect the rights of women and minorities--and then tops it by making his virtuous way of life as crass and materialistic as possible. Because nothing says simple men of old virtue like craft beer and expensive single-malt Scotch.  

Oh, and stocking up on gold and ammo. Because they're rugged and tough. *snort.*

Man, Never Heard This Idea Before.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Arch Oboler.

We see it over and over in Muir's work--hell, the Gunpowder Republic storyline is made of it. The conviction that rural areas and red states are some unstoppable dynamo that are being held back by the cities and blue states, that they are the vital force that keeps the nation running.

It's all very blood and soil.

Muir Has A Very Generous Definition Of Satire. He Has To.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Muscle Beach Party.

Muir knows that the greatest tyranny possible is that he and his can't do whatever they want. 

The Circle Gets Smaller And Smaller.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Beach Party.

It's the extent to which Muir is turning on DeSantis that gets you. This is deeper and more ridiculous than his Mitch McConnell screeds.

All Goes Exactly To Plan.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because we're the telephone band.

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You know, the fascinating thing is the way everyone acts as if Gunpowder's unilateral secession is a done deal and that they can seriously just offer asylum to people. Trump isn't declining the offer because it's stupid, he's declining it because of his brilliant master plan.

Racist Cops Shoot White People Who Are Actually Breaking The Law!

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because yes, I'd like to visit the moon, but I don't think I'd like to live there.

I've noted it before and I'll note it again--Muir's not just a fascist, he's a brittle-boned fascist, who mixes his tough guy talk with whining at the very notion that he and his could ever face consequences for their threats and their violence. Redneckistan isn't going to declare 'Long live, Death!', just wage war on a naive notion that it will attack everyone else and never, ever be seriously attacked.

The Important Thing Is They Are Simply Stupid And Inferior.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Expo '70.

It's kind of startling, the extent to which the strip has essentially degenerated into continuous blanket assertions of superiority. Muir no longer even tries to make points most of the time. Just declares that he is good and his opponents are bad.

Declarations Of Sovereign Citizenship Get A Girl Going.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because trips right, Tampa.

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Man, times like this you wonder why Muir is single, eh?

Somehow, This Supposed To Prove That He's A Catch.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Kit Walker.

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Astonishing how Muir can get a man babbling like an idiot and digging a deeper hole for himself right.

One Hideous Panel.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Perry Mason.

I don't know what is up with the back of the car, and I suspect I don't want to.

Revealing Gibberish.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Dom DeLuise.

The fascinating thing is even though that entire speech was close to word salad, it did prove quite illuminating at showing, well, all of Muir's issues in one strip.

Solomon Grundy Smash.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Frank Welker.

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It's kind of astonishing how much awful Muir gets with this bad softcore attempt, from the unnatural way Mari's body moves to... well, Jack's face just being... Jack's face.

So... Is This An Imagine Spot, Or A Parallel Universe, Or What?

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the face of depression.

...God, the blocking is so terrible in this. The fact that the subject is so awful as well just makes it worse.

The Cast Reminds Us They're Deeply Awful.

 It's the Day's Day's of Days! Because Jerry!

There's a bleak amusement to the fact that Muir imagines he's made Skye more likable, instead of destroying whatever redeeming qualities she had.

Ah. This Again.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because coconut.

...So, Muir has finally fully turned against DeSantis for... very odd reasons, and he's doing the 'robot imitates the evil, inferior Democrats' gag again.

It's going to be a long, very odd year.

Lunacy! Utter Lunacy

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because pineapple.

A perfectly reasonable gun control measure depicted as depraved tyranny. Of course.

The Strip's Online Wunderwaffen Get More Pathetic Every Year.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because mango.

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Look, he's doing the latest of iteration of the 'magical technology that shows how lame Democrats are' while mixing it with the 'Biden is a pervert' shit, and oh, yes, using the female characters he aged up so he could try and draw them as sex objects.

Sometimes, the various strands of awful in this trip come together like objects in a black hole's event horizon.

Apparently, They Have To Pose Provocatively To Make It Work.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Tiger Balm Red.

I swear this plotline has happened before.

Possibly twice.

A Genius Plan

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because clock strikes 12.

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As we stare at the latest edition of "the Compound easily bests its foes with a terrible plan that shouldn't work", I suppose I should mention the riffle-beetle is aquatic, so good luck keeping it alive in Texas prairie.

Tonight On Badly-Blocked Theatre, No Drama, And Also, Sexism.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because you're in the picture.

...It's really astonishing how the small amount of talent Muir had about these things has rotted away at this point, so that we regularly get strips like this one.

Watching The Fash Own Goal Themselves, And Think It's A Brilliant Play.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Dragon Gate Inn.

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So, first a completely lifeless bit of domestic drama, and then Muir makes an idiotic, morally bankrupt argument that compares refugees to soldiers actively committing a genocide, because Muir is, once again, fash that thinks he's not fash.

A Reminder That These People Unilaterally Seceded.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because chock full o'booze!

Because, remember, first, the Right always wins, and if it doesn't, that means the Left cheated, and broke some laws, even if you can't prove it. Second, the important laws let the Right do whatever they want, and any laws that don't aren't real laws and don't matter. Third, fascism is whatever opposes the Right and their dream of an ethnostate that operates by letting them do whatever they want and beat down the inferior scum who differ from the. It has to be, because everyone knows fascism is a bad thing.

He Immediately Realizes There Is No Answer To This Wily Strategem.

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because it's a new brand!

Simple acceptance of all this nonsense. That gun control measures are the REAL cause of gun deaths. That Gunpowder's laws could somehow enforce this idiotic dictate. That Sam's got the upper hand here. Because Muir knows he's always right and knows that his foes knows it too. And so he never writes any ambiguity on the results or the premises.

Even when he swaps them around suddenly.