It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Kamen Rider ZO.
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You know, it says something that even Muir's cast acknowledges his bizarre fascist screed is a confusing mess of a metaphor.
A day by day look at Chris Muir's Day By Day, punctuated by efforts to make the hurting stop.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Kamen Rider ZO.
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You know, it says something that even Muir's cast acknowledges his bizarre fascist screed is a confusing mess of a metaphor.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Shin Kamen Rider: Prologue.
Sam's literally got naked pictures on the town's Monopoly money currency, so how is this shocking?
Or does that even exist anymore? Redneckistan exists in such a bizarre state these days, along with everything else.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Kamen Rider Black RX.
There was a time when an event like the debate would have merely gotten smug gloating from Muir. Now it's smug gloating filtered through an indecipherable jargon that sees anything that isn't bigotry as evil.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Kamen Rider Black.
Muir's pregnancy fetish and his breastfeeding fetish in tandem, here to remind us that he cannot write women at all, and make us want to gouge out our eyes.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Kamen Rider Super-1.
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Muir's eternal insistence on talking about things he doesn't really get is... well, eternal.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Kamen Rider Skyrider.
I think we're supposed to assume that obviously the cast would never sell the female characters into slavery, and so this is just their version of lighthearted banter.
The problem is I am no longer convinced of that first part.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Kamen Rider Stronger.
What gets you is how we are clearly supposed to approve of this hateful misogynistic response to what's supposed to be a happy event.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Kamen Rider Amazon.
And in between a strange mix of another grotesque attempt at sentimentality and Muir's pervy pregnancy fetish, he tosses in a sneering, stupid joke about Green Energy in another fine display of Muir's dogmatic crankery and blind hatred of environmentalism.
Just an awful strip, in every way.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Kamen Rider X.
So many of Muir's issues with women on display here, from the entire handling of childbirth to Mari's talking like a kid character from a bad 1930s comic again. Just... so much ick.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Kamen Rider V3.
As we segue into yet another plot we don't care about, let us consider the steady dullness of Muir's buying every story and meme that he's handed by the Right Wing Noise Machine.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Kamen Rider.
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He wrote this strip and he never looked it over and said 'Yeah, I think I lost the thread on this one.'
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraman Blazar.
Muir regurgitating someone else's complaints about the latest Star Wars streaming series.
There's something so sad about this.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraman Decker.
As we reach the usual bit of whining at this point of the online begging bowl, I feel a sudden need to talk about the 300 Spartans.
Who were actually the 300 Spartans and 6,700 other guys. And even after most of the others had retreated included 700 Thespians, and another 400 Thebans--who admittedly were being held hostage.
Who, yes, held off a superior force for a few days--but accomplished nothing strategically by doing so. But gosh, it sure sounds impressive doesn't it? Why focus on the people who actually won the war against Persia when you can focus on the Spartans, and make them your symbol of "Western" civilization?
The fact that they went on to sell out to the Persians can be ignored.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraman Trigger: New Generation Tiga.
The sloppy dream sequence. Muir's idiot ticket to getting himself out of the corners he idiotically writes himself into.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraman Z.
You know, it's the levels of wrongness that gets you. The elaborate plan with nonsense steps for something that should be simple. Sam, a freaking mayor, being treated as if she is the head of a sovereign state. The 'ha ha, the government drones know the end is coming' triumphalism. All coming together for this one epic amount of crazyfail.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraman Taiga.
You know, Ronald Reagan's smug thoughtless witticism was bad enough as a lying dismissal of everything the New Deal and the Great Society accomplished. But to see it dragged onstage by modern fascists as some sort of self-proving article is a new low. These people are bad, because they are doing the thing that is bad!
Ignore the fact that Sam is also from the government. It's a different type of government, and so it doesn't count.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraman R/B.
This is what Muir wants us to admire about Sam. Her viciousness, her malice, and her penchant for petty thuggery, all dressing itself in self-righteous excuses.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraman Geed.
The awfulness of this family gets to you. Though Sam reminding us what Muir thinks of as his dream woman is... a thing.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraman Orb.
So after first embracing the entire Jan. 6 crowd, Muir has now moved to insisting it is somehow a 'false flag'. While still being a bunch of patriots. Oh, and China is involved. Somehow.
It's amazing that he can see himself as firm in his convictions even as he swaps beliefs the way most people do socks.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraman X.
This manages to both be pathetic and also terrifying. But so much for the rule of laws not men. Oh, well. Muir knows that can't be important.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraman Ginga S.
"Women are emotional and irrational" he said, as he denied science and based his decisions completely on his feelings. "They lack toughness," he muttered, as he cowardly cried to abandon allies to fascism. "They lack the keen minds of men," he added, as he repeated arguments he had been spoonfed by others.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraman Ginga.
And it's Pizzagate again. Nearly a decade after that craziness leaked out, Muir starts buying it whole, and brings it out in a fascistic rant against the evil decadent elites so different from Muir's herrenvolk heroes. Aside from the... you know, clear antisemitic undertone, there's the simple fact that Muir rants about the wealthy... after numerous strips where he praises the wealthy. But that's the Right Wing trick. Their rich people, who are selfish, racist, and bigoted are following the natural order and good. Your rich people, who are supporting some effort to make society at least somewhat more equitable, are not--and thus they have to be malignant child molesters. Their cruelty only seems more evil, and even that's only because the decadent filth have messed with your perceptions and played on your sentiments to make you weak--it's actually just how things are. The others' apparent kindness is not, it's an evil, unnatural ploy to weaken you, and also, it's a mask, to hide the fact that they're evil degenerates. Because if that is wrong... well, then Muir and is ilk are cruel. And stupid. And people who are weakening society instead of strengthening it. And they can't have that.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultra Galaxy Mega Monster Battle: Never Ending Odyssey.
As usual, Muir manages to get himself into a situation where his strawman throws an uppercut that knocks him to the canvas, and he responds by smashing his head on the ground one more time because he thinks it makes him stronger. It is readily obvious to any observer that Gunpowder is an authoritarian hellhole that engages in blatant and petty political persecution. And its response is not to deny it--but to state that they only do it because everyone else does it to them. By not allowing them to get away with anything they want. Like paying people off in complicated stupid ways that wind up committing fraud.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultra Galaxy Mega Monster Battle.
As usual, Muir's straw version of opponents are a pretty accurate picture of himself--a shallow bigot dismissing his opponents simply because they're his opponents, spouting rote opinions that are utter nonsense because they're what he's been taught to believe.
The projection, once again, is total.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraseven X.
As this is the usual 'Sam is a racist jackass whose awful attempts at wit are portrayed as her just owning the libs' strip, I'm going to focus on how whatever the hell Muir is doing with the fund-raising this year is absolutely fucking up the schedule or at very least, the online publishing aspect of it. This was clearly supposed to be Wednesday's strip, but is shown as a second Tuesday strip. And this is a very easy thing to take care of. I'm not sure whether what we're seeing is 'Muir doesn't care' or 'Muir no longer gets simple matters of handling a website'.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraman Mebius.
It's the layers of idiocy that get you in this one, to the thought that Redneckistan can do this with impunity, to the regular confirmation of Muir's idiot conspiracies by the baddies, and to the fact that this is all these people can do, go to the media, instead of multiple levels of law enforcement. But then it hits you--whiny ineffectual losers who can only bitch about their wrongs to sympathetic media?
That's Muir and his ilk. The projection, as usual is total. Though in this case, I do think this is how Muir and his audience think this is how things are supposed to be done. They just see the ways non-Rightists do it as inferior, involving decadent and wicked sources who are wrongly elevated above their Right Wing counterparts. What makes these people funny is they have to go to those idiots at the New York Times. Who don't deserve the respect they get, and are stealing it from crazy online guys.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraman Max.
Once again Redneckistan is somehow fascinating to people who shouldn't care about it, and irresistible despite being a weak opponent that keeps making self-defeating moves. Because like every fascist, Muir is obsessed with strength and power, but doesn't understand how they work.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraman Nexus.
There's something so quietly pathetic where Muir opens the strip with a lot of nonsense arguments that he's learnt second-hand, so you know that he's essentially having his characters quote his fellow nutters. Running through this is Muir's eternal belief that the Real Law has to be something that lets him and his do whatever they want. And the evil Left acting as if it doesn't work that way is more proof of their evil and corruption, denying this self-evident truth, and ALSO allows him to use the even more powerful Real Laws that let him do even more things that he wants to do to hurt them.
Which is totally not fascist, because youse the fascist for wanting to stop him.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraman Cosmos.
And remember, when Muir imagined the evil Blue Staters doing this, it was the evilest form of authoritarianism. But that was them, doing it to his people. The other way is The Natural Order and Good.
And it's also a good demonstration that Muir doesn't get how the Constitution works.