It's the Day's Day of Days! Because in Merry Sherwood.
There's something quietly chilling in how Muir, in a sloppy barely patched together strip like this can spend his time echoing old Nazi propaganda and not even knowing it.
While also being goofy as hell.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because licorice whip.
Muir declaring the Emperor having no clothes as he pulls out the 'it was all a dream' device he keeps doing because he writes himself into corners after never developing any discipline on these things at all.
But then I guess those things are Marxist traits. Anything that isn't fascist idiocy, after all.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because it doesn't look very hospitable, sir.
You know, not only does Muir demonstrate the deep problems of keeping this damn museum going as anything more than an internal break from the strip's reality, he does so with more of his declaring his opponents Nazis for opposing his agenda that is... literally things the Nazis were in favor of. It's like fail on top of fail.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because inside outside leave me alone.
You know, now that he's dragging this thing out, I'm wondering if this thing is supposed to be an actual location in universe, instead of simply a metaphorical one the way it usually was in the past.
Once again, Muir's ability to botch premises through artistic incompetence is... a thing.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because yes, except we lived in a van and solved mysteries.
Muir's been putting strips exactly like this out for a long time, and they've always been sad little "Nu-uh! You are!"s from the very start.
The Trump situation lurking in the background of this one just makes it seem extra sad.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because curse your sudden, yet inevitable betrayal.
There's a reason I don't see any Trump restoration lasting too terribly long. They are running on 'abandoning allies to fascist invaders who have made it abundantly clear that if they win here, they're gonna keep going, the thing that spelled the end of to Britain and France's periods as superpowers, will of course, work out for us, because reasons, and also, Putin is such a dashing man'. This brand of fascist government, which pitches national restoration and gets you national humiliation almost immediately, doesn't last. It runs out of road pretty quick, and starts self-cannibalizing and making panic decisions.
Which doesn't mean you want to live through it, because they do tend to kill a shitload of people and commit a boatload of atrocities. Also, our hegemony going from 'fraying but still potent' to 'completely collapsed' is not going to be good for the world.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Nebula Mask Machine Man.
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It says something that Muir being merely cliched and tiresome is less awful than normal.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Daitetsujin 17.
The fascinating thing about Muir's declarations of cheating is they aren't a new development. He's been screaming that the Democrats can't have really won since 2008, an election where a Democratic victory was highly likely. This is a rare area where Muir, instead of being a weird outlier, was a canary in the coalmine, expressing the Republican belief that they are the natural party of government, despite only winning the Presidential popular vote once since 1992. True, Muir has largely turned on the party, viewing it as a lot of disloyal scum whose only saving grace is being the instrument through which his fascist dreams can be manifested, but that belief that he and his are simply owed power, the fundamental source of his fascism, that's been there for the entire run of the strip.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Kaiketsu Zubat.
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As usual, Muir's declarations of his opponents' corruption and stupidity demonstrate his own.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Kagestar.
This is the standard white supremacist spiel against the 1965 Immigration Act except for one little bit, Muir's belief that Ted Kennedy was behind it.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Space Ironman Kyodain.
Muir is still mad that a Black man was president, and he's still mad that the country isn't an ethnostate.
And remember, he thinks this proves what an unvarnished patriot he is.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Akumaizer 3.
Funny how Muir's declarations of how things oughta be are very vague on what that oughta is. Oh, he knows what he wants, white guys like him--and only white guys like him, those with different opinions are just more of the wreckers--running things. But what that looks like--he's vague on that, because he really has no idea. He wants his kind to win, but he doesn't really know what winning is.
This is the problem that fascists face--their brand of reactionaryism is always very odd, and leaves them imagining some eternal ancient true version of their nation that never existed, and never could exist. Their plan to get there? Brutality and awfulness. It never works. But sometimes they get to commit some atrocities, before the whole hideous structure breaks down.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Inazuman Flash.
Leave it to Muir's imaginary women to explain that legalized abortion is the government going in women's vaginas. Because leaving the choice to women is that, not the government making sure they don't. Somehow.
Also, the gays plot against the youth, but come on, we've heard that one for years by this point.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Inazuman.
And I couldn't wait for the Evil Black Lady Government Employee cartoons to end.
What a fool I was.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Robot Detective.
I don't know whether the awfulness or the laziness appalls me more at this point.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Kikaider 01.
Muir's been producing these stock Black Women Government Employees, and putting these nonsensical declarations in their mouths for years now, and the reason is pathetically obvious. If he doesn't, he might have to realize that he's the anxious little coward with issues on race and women. So, no, no, everything is bad because white guys aren't doing it. Because it can't be him. Nope.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Android Kikaider.
Muir in his constant belief that the status of others can only be improved by diminishing his makes himself smaller than cockroach. And about as appealing.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Superman Barom-1.
So, is FEMA an evil arm of the oppressive state that must be resisted, or something decent that's been rendered ineffective by the evil of trying to hire minorities?
Oh, silly me. Both at once, depending on Muir's mood and what he wants to rant about at any given moment.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Giant Robo.
I swear, them describing this ridiculous nonsense and paranoid drivel like a couple of 1930s film moppets, despite being in-universe a pair of 20 year olds, one of whom is a mother, adds to both the horror, and the dark, unintended comedy that exists in place of the hideous intended humor.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Captain Ultra.
Not only is he still talking about the same subject he's using the same joke.
This is usually a bad sign, because it hints the next comic will be extra crazy.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Masked Ninja Red Shadow.
It says something that Muir has likely forgotten he's used a variation on this misogynistic quip about Hillary many times before.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Golden Bat.
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It's the way that Muir gets self-righteous about his own moral bankruptcy that gets you. This is a pathetic, evil whiny manbaby who thinks he's demonstrating what a tough manly man he is.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because National Kid.
As we see Muir continue his distorted vision of the recovery efforts from Helene, what strikes you is how amused Muir is by it all. He takes joy in the thought of the government failing, because he is incapable of imagining it succeeding. There is no true morality in Muir's vision, just as there is no true patriotism or humanism. Muir all but gloats at this because his default setting is bad faith.
The fascinating thing is how the failures Muir is basing this on undermine so much of what he claims is the truth. His FEMA thugs stopping rescue pilots are based on a single local air marshal exceeding his authority, and getting quietly swatted down by the Feds--in essence a mirror image of Muir's world where the local authorities are the source of all that is good. But he'd have to look to see that. So he won't look.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Seven Color Mask.
And we're back to Muir fantasizing about shooting the evil treacherous gubmint goons. This is what Muir imagines being a helper to be.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Planet Prince.
As much of a measured relief it is to see Muir admit to an error, even if it's in a snarky half-assed way that reinforces his 'fug the gubmint' stance, the fact remains is, we've seen this before. It doesn't happen often, but Muir does admit to certain egregious errors--in a way that lets him do so quickly while reinforcing his general outlook and acting as if this an extreme outlier instead of something he does all the time. Because this really isn't about admitting he was wrong--it's about moving on as quickly as possible so that he can say to himself that he's fine and he doesn't need to change.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Moonlight Mask.
Muir believes the people who tell him what he wants to hear. And what he wants to hear is that horrible things are happening because people have turned their backs on racist, isolationist politics.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Tesuwan Tantai Robotack.
You know, I think I covered most of the general subject pretty well yesterday, even if Muir has taken a more... openly Nazi-take on the subject, fueled by internet stories that are then distorted and magnified by his fevered fascistic consciousness.
So instead I'll point out that Muir doesn't seem to realize that as Secretary of State, the hurricane recovery isn't Blinken's job. Foreign relations are. Muir is mad at him because he doesn't understand what the man's job is.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because B-Fighter Kabutack.
This shouldn't be a surprise. Muir will repeat idiotic lies he hears, and repeat them in ways that reveal the moral nullity at their center and think he's doing bang up work. Insisting the gubmint isn't helping the Red States hit by Helene (newsflash, it is) and using it to bash aid to Ukraine in his new paleocon isolationist mode? Par for the course.
But what is interesting is that Muir used to put arguments like these in the mouth of Factory Setting Feckless Liberal Jan, straw arguments to be set against the glorious neocon dream of blowing Arab states up and then building them back better. How could we dare rebuild other nations when we had problems over here?, she'd say. Again, a straw argument to show that she simply lacked faith in the glories of our nation. Except now Muir just repeats it outright. Of course, it makes sense. For Muir, the rebuilding was always secondary to showing the Other who was boss, and when it proved hard, he gave up on it, and decided we should have just killed people. And like most of his ilk, that over-exaggerated faith in the country was thin cover over his despising everything in it that wasn't like him, so that as soon as it turned out he and his couldn't hold power forever and without limit, he shifted to screaming the nation was ruined and he hasn't stopped.
As I note over and over again, he becomes more and more what he always really was.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because B-Fighter Kabuto.
And you just know that in the near future--probably the nearer future than you'd first imagine--Muir will be explaining how the Left are all Nazis. Once again, the projection is total, right down to the projection.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Juukou B-Fighter.
And here we see the fascism that lurks under the thin wrapping of Muir's libertarian rhetoric. He says, and likely imagines, that he wants a world of freedom--but what he really wants is for him and his to have the license to do as they please and enforce their will on those they don't agree with. So a world of freedom for brittle redneck reactionaries. Authoritarianism for everyone else.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Blue SWAT.
He's been saying nonsense stuff like this for years, idiotic displays of not only his own ignorance but of his own immensely swollen ego.
