It's the Day's Day of Days! Because ransom paid the devil.
There's a bleak fascination of Muir going full old-school QAnon well after that aspect of the movement has largely died out, being replaced with a more generalized nuttiness. But then, Muir is not infrequently a bit behind the times in following these online right-wing crazes. It's part of the eclectic feel of his own brand of it.
And as always, there's also the desire to be the hero, to be someone important. Muir's imaginary "Zed" is friends with Q and has Elon Musk visiting his ranch, and in this strip gets listed alongside the Founding Fathers as a revolutionary. I can certainly empathize with the longing to be something greater than just our everyday lives (even as I realize that Muir would never empathize with me...or anyone who is not part of the cult...we are less than human to him).
ReplyDeleteMusk being a longtime regular visitor is cringe enough, but their close relationship with President Trump was just a whole other level of wankery on Muir's part.
DeleteWait...so, that's what I'm seeing here? Zed is friends with Q himself? Okay, even for Muir, that is an incredibly reckless and stupid thing to write into the plot. Granted, at this point there will probably never be a universally accepted definitive answer as to who "Q" really was (which is incredible in itself), but you'd have to be a special kind of fool to not understand that it was somebody trolling everyone.
If you recall, Muir's hinted Captain Mitty's shadowy intelligence contact was Q before, though he seemed to go back and forth on it. As I noted, it's weird that he goes all in now.
DeleteYeah, I was going to say. Q drops? When were those last even a thing? I think late 2020 or early 2021 at the latest.
ReplyDeleteRight? Even the peanut gallery was discussing how "Q" has now been replaced by "L" or whoever their latest conspiracy theory source is....
DeleteMuir's always been odd on these things, sometimes jumping in with utter enthusiasm very late in the game, as everyone else is giving a fad up. He's most revealing about the mindset of the Far Right at a given moment then any particular beliefs, because well, there's a general uniformity but not much further among this sort. They may all catch the same cold, metaphorically speaking, but the symptoms vary person to person.
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