It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Ice Cream Bunny.
There is something genuinely disconcerting about Muir's conviction that Mitch McConnell's wife is a communist agent and a good part of what makes him a compromised agent of the deep state conspiracy. Partially because of how quickly Muir adopted it and how strongly he sticks to it these days.
It indeed is amazing. Muir and his ilk will believe just about anything. It takes no time at all for even the most bonkers lie to be fully absorbed into the grander far-right narrative like a sponge soaking up every drop of moisture in sight.
ReplyDeleteAnd once it's been absorbed into the narrative, it's pretty much there for good. Nothing will dislodge it, least of all revelations down the road that, in the reality-based community, would function as proof that the thing never happened. Indeed it will be ripe fodder for Muir's panel-one pronouncements™® , where the most batshit insane assertions are routinely stated as casual fact.
God, this comic is nuts.
Muir's writing continues to get lazier and lazier. The people he hates are all one formless mass of indistinguishable weaklings, wimps, a and cowards. His depictions of everyone from a NYTimes editor to James Comey will be exactly the same --- a stumbling, weak, incompetent mess who inevitably crumbles before the towering strength of Sam's snarky comments.
Have you ever, even once, seen the real-life Mitch McConnell show any signs of vulnerability? I haven't. If he has, I've missed it. The man is one of the most powerful people in Washington, and one of the ways he's maintained that position for years is by being as unyielding as an iron rod and as stoic as a statue, even in the rare moments where he's caught in a serious jam (like right after January 6th when he felt compelled to address the attack).
But in Muir-world, he has to be a quivering weakling and that's all there is to it.
"Stoic" would be a bit of exaggeration to my mind--spite and whinging are the GOP's calling cards in this era, and Mitch plays them as much as any of them--but he does generally do his best to appear unflappable. And as you note, in this comic he is easily flustered and defeated by the casts' utterly pathetic gibes. It's "everybody clapped" in comic form.
DeleteYeah, "unflappable" is a much better word for what I was trying to express.
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