The Weirdest 'Totally Not Racist' Ever.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Strangers on a Train.

...That is truly the strangest 'some of my best friends are...' that this strip has ever produced.

And it's produced plenty of strange ones.

All The Smarm Of A Bad Burlesque Comic, With None Of The Charm.

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Stage Fright.

It says something that even when you hand Muir good material he'll whiff it. Partially because he doesn't actually disapprove of eating expensive food, he just hates it when anyone who doesn't believe things like brown people and immigrants having rights does it, and so he mutters vague things about decadence and moves on. But the other thing he feels that whenever masculinity needs to be discussed, the rightness of his own toxic brand of it needs to be asserted as crassly as possible.

Needless To Say, No, It Does Not Back This Action Up.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Under Capricorn.

There's an embarrassment of awful riches here, from the bad cheesecake art, to the calls for dictatorship that demonstrate that Muir not only doesn't get what he's talking about, he doesn't know what he's calling for, to Kiko making said call in her standard '30s moppet talk.

It's just, man, does Muir pack in the awfulness this time around.

Has Muir Mentioned His Opponents Are All Degenerates Enough?

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

It's so Muir in treating an fluff opinion piece as clearly an important bit of policy AND proof of how weak and inferior his opponents are.

Bonus points for confusing the UK for England, and not realizing the Shadow Cabinets are a common feature in many parliamentary systems around the world.

Mother-Daughter Bonding Over The Fourteen Words.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Paradine Case.

I will never stop being offended about Muir having his cast be so outraged about the fictional character he had killed by a fictional immigrant.

Muir Is Hip With The Youth!

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

I don't know what's more annoying, Muir trying to pretend he gets things or Muir indulging in his fetishistic hatred of the IRS, because in his dream world he gets all the benefits of government without having to pay for it, and also, the poor and minorities suffer.

The Weird And Woolly World Of Sex In This Strip.

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

As I've noted before, I've just learned to accept Muir's weird Arnold obsession. It's arguably one of the least offensive things about him. Just, as noted, weird.

Begging Bowl Time!

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Aventure Malgache.

And Muir starts the begging bowl early this year after accidentally nearly starting it earlier. Same crass sleaze delivered badly as always. I'm kind of amazed he can find people willing to pay for it, but hey, whatever floats your boat, I suppose.

"So This Proves That They're The Actual Elitists!"

  It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Bon Voyage.

Muir's played this card so often that I think even he's forgotten how it's supposed to work. Endless shallow accusations and 'whatabouts", while Muir nods along with calls to give the rich more money and more power, only whining when he thinks they aren't his sort of rich people, white and racist.

A Rogue Biden Slam Appears!

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Fighting Generation.

There's something low grade surreal in this entire... interval, Muir blatantly spinning his wheels and just not noticing how it not only looks petty and desperate but underlines what a complete failure of a fictional universe he's got, a strip where the heroes are completely unlikable and unrelatable.

You Da Bully!

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

Remember, it's bullying when people dare hit back. They're supposed to just let the right sort beat them up.

The Fact No One Is Talking About It Proves It's Real!

  It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Shadow of a Doubt.

He's really getting into this Nazi bullshit, these days. Not trying to hide it anymore, honestly.

The Dangers Of Using Neo-Nazi Statistics.

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

As we all stare at that pile of racist crazy, I should state that while it's possible to get it so the percentage of the world's population that is 'white' is tiny like this, it involves such an incredibly tight definition of white that, well, makes your racism look extra racist,

Muir's heading towards "measuring heads with calipers" territory is what I'm saying.

Why Do They Have Any Obligations At All, They Ask?

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

Muir clearly thinks his cast is witty, wronged and deeply sympathetic.

Obviously, they are none of these things.

"Become The Racist Authoritarian Strongman The Country Clearly Needs, Mr. President!"

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

Note that the day after he accuses them of being race traitors trying to dilute the nation's blood, Muir whines how nobody noticed when the Democrats deported people. 

I've no doubt he has some paranoid way that both are true. Somehow.

Has Muir Mentioned Replacement Theory And How Democrats Are Race Traitors Recently?

  It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Foreign Correspondent.

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It's been a thing, watching Muir get... well, not so much more racist but more openly racist, as well as shifting into out and out white supremacism.

Why Do You Persecute Muir With Your Hate Crimes?

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

The man who fantasized about having his idealized self-portrait threaten the previous president declares the he doesn't understand why Dems are so violent man.

Pathetic. Just pathetic. It all just underlines how Muir, the man he reveres and the movement that's attached to the former are all the same. Thin-skinned, brittle-boned bullies who wallow in their own hypocrisy.

Muir's Fictional Shape-Changing Robots Prove His Point! Checkmate, Liberals!

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Jamaica Inn.

It's not just the extent to which Muir is a bigoted ass that gets you, it's the extent that he doesn't even understand the topic he's talking about, and doesn't even realize what a terrible argument he's presented.

Has Muir Mentioned That Every Crazy Rumor About Democrats Is True Yet?

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Lady Vanishes.

When ever Muir goes full 'paranoid conspiracy theory Mad Lib' I assume he's upset on some level by reality not doing what he wants, and so just does his version of a free jazz session to clear his head.

His pathetic, evil and talentless version.

Muir's Not Freaking Out! You're Freaking Out!

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Young and Innocent.

As we watch Muir complain about a show we can be fairly certain he never watched and a version of Keir Starmer who doesn't exist, let's consider how easy it is to get Muir to agree with you. Just say that people aren't appreciating men enough and he's whinging his heart out and imagining that he sounds tough and sage-like.

Fear, Always Fear The Decadent Urbanite.

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

The astonishing thing is that Muir is convinced that it's still 2020 in Portland.

Then again, as Eva demonstrates, time in DbD moves funny.

Ha! Threatening People With Death Proves How Not Fascist Muir's Politics Are!

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Secret Agent.

The quietly hilarious thing in the middle of this fascist horror is that if there really were 72 million frothing at the mouth fanatics backing Trump's lunatic agenda, there would be well over double that number not backing it.

Then again, Muir has always assumed that his people count extra.

The Ever-Increasing Internal Enemies List.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The 39 Steps.

Muir screaming how his opponents are fascists and how they are all hysterical babies to see Trump as a fascist manages to hit a new level of fail by stating that the proof of all this is how the courts won't let Trump do all the authoritarian bullshit he wants.

All The Self-Awareness Of A Mollusk.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934).

The usual projection is bad enough, but once again, Sam and company strolled into town intentionally trying to rile people up, and people realize that. Like so much of Muir's moral universe, it's the stance of someone who, to paraphrase Bomber Harris, lives their life in the naive belief that they will attack everybody, but no one will ever attack them.

See, The Cast Doesn't Have To Do Anything To Win.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Waltzes from Vienna.

The extent to which the strip's straw leftists have devolved from merely bad caricatures into laughable creations who can't even stand up is revelatory. 

Endless Cheap Shots.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Number 17.

Has Muir mentioned that he views gender as binary and unchangeable, and that he hates the modern era of Star Wars? He has? Well, he's going to keep mentioning them, because these are important things to talk about, and not an old man yelling at clouds, revealing his pathetic bigotry and pettiness. That's what the Right Wing Noise Machine tells him.

Yawn.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Rich and Strange.

I'm going to take what little amusement I can in that Muir's efforts to play the moral crusader happen against the background of all his utterly bizarre sex quirks.

He's bad at this in a way it's tough to find.

Another Effortless Victory Against An Imaginary Foe.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Skin Game.

This trip to Teeter continues to underwhelm. I think Muir is running to the problem that he can't figure out where to go with this because he knows much as he's come to hate higher education, it's still something that his beloved Red States can't do without, which means accepting these accursed Blue cities.

And Right Back To The Loud 'Ugh'.

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

And of course, Muir immediately follows his shallow show of tolerance--which, remember comes with a huge number of qualifiers in return for the most grudging version of it--with the most lurid anti-trans bullshit he can come up with.

Made extra-icky by the man's utter hypocrisy.

The Quiet 'Ugh' Of Muir Insisting He Isn't A Bigot.

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

Wasn't quite where I was expecting Muir to go with this, but in the end, this has always been a staple of the strip, Muir insisting he doesn't object to liberals/Blacks/Hispanics/etc. so long as they're the right sort of... you know the drill. And that right sort is essentially a version of Muir who is one of the aforementioned. 

Because Muir can't handle people calling him an immature, hateful bigot, and so does things like this, which wind up underlining the whole matter.

Increasing Amounts Of Ugh.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Juno and the Paycock.

There's two prominent threads of Muir's misogyny and anti-queer bigotry here, both closely related. The first is Muir's quiet disgust that women would dare openly admit that they aren't always sexy. The second is that someone who he sees as a woman might use their bodily autonomy for things that might make him view them as 'not women', or at the very least 'not attractive women'.

Because Muir sees women as objects folks. It's what he does. And he's convinced himself this is the most respectful way to view women and anything else is just a dirty lie.

More Ugh...

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because An Elastic Affair.

The cast continues to suffer in a world where not everyone is almost exactly like them, and if they inflict themselves on people they don't like to try and pick fights, they will have to be reminded of this fact.

The horror.

...Ugh.

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

Won't lie, I am quietly terrified of where he's going with this one.

"How Dare The Scum React To Behavior We Are Doing To Be Provocative!"

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Manxman.

And Muir's cast revel in their meaningless, effortless victory. Again.

Inferior Decadent Cityfolk! Daring To Respect Deviants!

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

I await Muir explaining that his cast having to treat others with at least a modicum of respect in public is some sort of hideous imposition, and a sign of the naturally inferior morals of the Leftist urbanites.

Oh, This Again.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Easy Virtue.

That is probably Zir, and if it isn't, is yet another gender-ambiguous queer hate-figure. It doesn't really matter, whatever the case it's going to be yet another hateful, utterly pathetic foe that the cast will trounce effortlessly because that's all they do, trounce ridiculous caricatures of what Muir imagines Leftism, immigrants and queer sexuality to be.

...Uh-huh.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Farmer's Wife.

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The shoutouts to fans are getting fucking weird.

Muir Continues To Not Get What Words Mean.

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

I assume Eva's also been magically aged up at this point, which means the condition is catching.

Also, ick.

"Ha Ha! Look At The Inferior Lib NPC!"

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Ring.

It says something that Muir's so marinated in his own awfulness by this point that his straw leftists operate by nonsense jargon that only makes sense to him.

Exactly! Only Decadent Females Carry Such Things!

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog.

It's like on some level, Muir knows how ridiculous he sounds. So he just shouts louder to bury it deeper.

Beware Of The Left's Decadent Wiles, Youngsters!

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Mountain Eagle.

You know, after endless depictions of cities as urban hellscapes prowled in by criminal scum, we get the other popular reactionary vision of them--decadent and wasteful places that offer luxuries that sap the spirit and will. This is Muir at his most shallow and hypocritical--he doesn't actually mind luxuries at all, provided they're the luxuries he's coded as good. Many of which are coarsest, most vulgar things imaginable, as I've noted before, the trucknut as a symbol of virtue. 

It's the way of the fascist who wants a narrow blinkered world where everything he loves gets declared either high culture or true culture, and everything else is degenerate filth.

Muir Goes Extra Heavy On The Racism.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Pleasure Garden.

The extent to which the strip is now little more than a deluded old bigot spouting racist gibberish and every now and then explaining, no, no, you're the real racist, is kind of astounding at times.

In universe, you'd wonder how Damon would handle all this naked white supremacy now, but then you recall that the cast declared him an honorary White a while back, and he was delighted.

Tragedy Is Always An Excuse To Be Racist.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Number 13.

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Muir can always make horrible things just a bit worse.

He Is Muir's Sort Of Person.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Columbo Likes the Nightlife.

A shout-out to a fan winds up a good display of Muir's racism and Miles Gloriosus tendencies.

This is about as pleasant as Muir gets these days. And it's still pretty awful.

They Lack Muir's Intellectual Rigour To Know They Is Poopyheads!

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Murder with Too Many Notes.

Ahh. Whining about how the people you are trying to offend have temerity to be offended. Classic Muir. The funny thing is he's almost certain, having portrayed the inhabitants of Teeter as unthinking sheeple, to start portraying them as ivory tower types out of sync with the instinctual blood and soil politics of the Volk.

Because once again, the only thing that matters is that everything about the Left is evil and wrong. The exact attributes that makes them so can swapped about at will, so that they can be, metaphorically speaking, tall and thin or short and squat, as needed, whichever is the shape of degeneracy at that given moment.

Funny How He Almost Instinctively Chooses A Jewish Democrat To Be The One Saying This, Eh?

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ashes to Ashes.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again... Muir declaring his opponents moral degenerates has never been great, but it's gotten absolutely disgusting of late, the smug moral superiority of a man with no real morals at all.

As Usual, Most Of The Accusations Are Confessions.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because A Trace of Murder.

It's kind of amazing, how nearly everything Muir accuses the Democrats of doing, Trump is actually doing or badly attempting to do. 

But once again, Muir doesn't understand how things work, and just assumes that racism and bullying are the answer to everything.

Naked Thuggery Just Proves You're Right!

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Strange Bedfellows.

He really thinks this cowardly bullshit is laudable, doesn't he?

You Can Just Hear The Ominous Musical Sting As That Sign Is Shown, Can't You?

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

I have to admit, that sign did get a laugh out of me. But it''s a laugh AT Muir, not with him. Because, let's be honest, this is Muir at his most pathetic, the cringing whine of a man who hates having his bigotry and evil called bigotry and evil, trying to wrap itself up so that it comes out like a smug dismissal and failing. 

Also, we learn that not-Austin is actually named 'Teeter', it's not some sort of nickname. Because of course it isn't, Muir is shit at naming things.

Always Be Gaslighting.

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Butterfly in Shades of Gray.

There's something quietly tiresome in Muir sticking to his fantasy version of DOGE, to avoid looking at the tariffs, and everything else. He's as much mark as he is con.

Whining, And The Breastfeeding Fetish Going In Scary New Directions.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because It's All in the Game.

Obviously, Muir is conflating disapproving of Musk and Trump with wanting to kill them. Which is not only a good example of his distorting of facts to depict a world where he and his are so oppressed, man, but even more, an example of his utter hypocrisy. Muir, after all, writes a strip where characters talk about killing his opponents frequently. But that's different. That's him. He and his get to scream oppression for their opponents wanting to give people health care and call for heads to roll from this unnatural desire. But voicing an objection to his wanting to shred the Constitution? Clearly, the evil plotting of deviants that shows how dangerous you are.

It's eternal 'heads, I win, tails, you lose.' Alongside the creepy as shit breastfeeding stuff, which let's be honest is getting downright disturbing of late. 

Welp, There Goes Sleep Tonight.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because A Bird in the Hand...

You know, if Muir was going for genuinely horrific, this would actually be pretty well done. But because he's aiming for 'funny/sexy', it just makes the failure worse.

"Come On, Honey! Let's Go To Not-Austin!"

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because No Time to Die.

For those somewhat mystified by this magical "college town" of Teeter, so far as I can tell, it's a fictitious city to go with his fictitious county.

Because I'm pretty sure Muir's never been to Texas. Just imagined it.

Pretending He Likes The Cybertruck To Own The Libs.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Death Hits the Jackpot.

It's kind of amazing how aimless the strip has been over the last week. Trump announces what's supposed to be the defining policy of his administration--and Muir coughs and tries to pay attention to something else.

The Supremely Arrogant Confidence Of The Supremely Ignorant Asshat.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star.

It says something that Muir imagines that the activities of his cast and the Trump administration are akin to natural forces, and that saying this is just sensible, instead of hubristic.

Then again, he clearly doesn't know much of the actual story of Cnut, who was A) a king, and B) was demonstrating the limits of his power.

Running A Car Shop, Sending Innocent Men To El Salvador--Same Thing, Really.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health.

As Muir continues to ignore what's actually happening in the world to whine about how everybody isn't obeying Trump's authorITIE in a particularly morally bankrupt fashion, I have to ask, what the fuck is Kiko doing in that car shop that ranks a federal injunction against it?

I mean, I know Muir lives in a world where things like this are just evil persecution, but let's be honest--his cast are fucking supervillains.

Only Corruption Would Make A Judge Not Approve Of Fascism!

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Columbo Goes to College.

Once again Muir's sore winner tendencies on display, where what's demanded from everyone else is constant and complete validation and submission. And also, once again, Muir's just ignoring everything that's going on in the world. Tariffs? What tariffs? (And for that matter, ever notice that Muir's cast of 100% All-Muricans don't give a damn about sports except to complain about how Black athletes are getting uppity? Houston is in the Men's Championship in an upset, and Muir's cast doesn't give a damn. I guess they're only so Texan, after all.)

The Most Unlikely Fetish Pairing Ever.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Murder in Malibu.

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At this point, I've just accepted that watching T2 gave Muir certain yearnings, and he's been writing them into the strip more and more.

She's Killed People For Less.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Uneasy Lies the Crown.

I'll say this--while this might be the latest example of 'Muir thinks his cast acting like sociopathic assholes is charming and heartwarming', at least it's not whatever word salad he's got coming down the pike to explain how it's a good thing Trump did, blowing up the economy, a good thing.

And we know it's coming.

The Howler Monkey Face Travels Down The Bloodline.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo.

Yup, Batman. 

If Batman worked with a white supremacist militia that was aligned with fascists foreign and domestic.

So really, more like one of Batman's enemies.

Muir Wants You To Remember How Awesome The Cast Are.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Agenda for Murder.

There's something so damned dull in the endless perks the cast get.

No Room At The Inn, Because It's Filled With Filthy Immi... Oh, Wait, That's Right.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Columbo Who Cries Wolf.

As we watch Muir produce... this, aside from the vanity and the tendency to show off his owns spiritual wretchedness when he thinks he's showing his piety, what gets you is how miserable he is. He's already complaining again. Because damn it, the US still isn't racist enough for him.

Gee, What Is He Trying To Say?

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Murder: A Self-Portrait.

Muir comparing the imaginary grandson of his imaginary version of himself to Christ.

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Somehow, this just elicits a nod from me at this point.

Muir's Racism, Meet Muir's Pregnancy Fetish.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Grand Deceptions.

...That last panel. That fucking last panel.

A Rollercoaster Of Delusion.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Sex and the Married Detective.

It's kind of fascinating how quickly the strip moves from insisting that Kari Lake has to have been cheated, because there's no way Right Wingers can ever lose elections, no way, to the insistence that the entire legislative branch is evil and corrupt and also pedophiles, to the whinging that Muir's sort has never been represented in DC before.

This is where the strip is now. The eternal whining of Muir's brittle-boned fascism while it apes patriotism so badly that any onlooker can realize that Muir actually hates the country.

Muir Figures Ludicrous Power Fantasies Will Perk Him Up.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Murder, Smoke, and Shadows.

A reminder that when the previous administration was sending FBI agents against the Compound, who were actively trying to secede from the country, this was hideous tyranny. But infiltrating your opponents' political fundraising group with the idea of destroying it? Completely reasonable, and something the Compound will cheerfully aid in! Because the Democrats are just criminal scum, and you know if they're doing something, it has to be crooked. 

Muir's Still Angry That A Black Man Was President.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Columbo Goes to the Guillotine.

Muir really must want to tune out the real world right now. He's just playing the old standbys, screaming that Obama wasn't a real Murican and drawing weird, bad pinup art of his female cast.

How Dare They Question The Wallet Inspectors!

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Conspirators.

There are two interesting bits in this. One of course is Muir demonstrating his fundamental gullibility, the man who will cheerily swallow destructive lies when they let him imagine victories. Musk and the forces of MEME must be proving immense fraud, and Democratic efforts to get money that's been illegally diverted must be them being stupid crooks.

The second is his tendency to go down weird little gag rabbit holes these days. He's repeating the rodent wheel gag from yesterday, only in a completely different context, because, well, it's in his head and he thinks this demonstrates brilliant continuity.

Such A Loving And Respectful Marriage.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because How to Dial a Murder.

There's something extra-awful about Muir declaring the characters he wrote to embody his own freakout at the world are only freaking out because they're weak-willed creatures who need a distraction. Especially with the underlying sexism in how it's handled.

"They Are Of The Cathedral!"

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Make Me a Perfect Murder.

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I won't lie, there's something hilarious about Trump's Anglophile tendencies, one of the most harmless aspects of personality, being what absolutely sets Muir off.

Clearly The Most Important Thing Trump Has Done.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Murder Under Glass.

A reminder you can never tell just what will set Muir off. That said, I do think part of what's fueling this is an underlying disappointment with how things have gone. He expected triumph, and all he's gotten is a mess. Even DOGE is slowing down now, largely because it keeps stepping on rakes.

Muir Declares 'Twas All A Ruse.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Try and Catch Me.

There's a lot to unpack in this strip, and I'm going to try and unpack as much of it as I can, so bear with me. It's going to be a trip.

I've got to start with Sam's memories of Dean Martin's Celebrity Roast reruns, because... well, these are clearly Muir's memories of watching the show, and it really underlines what fuels so much of the strip these days, an aging boomer pining for a past he doesn't remember. A reminder that the Roast aired mostly in that halcyon time of racial harmony we call the 1970s, which Muir is now depicting as this happier time when people knew their place.

And from there we descend into the maelstrom, as Muir declares he was only pretending to be antisemitic, and the audience was all being fooled by his wily stratagems when they said he sounded like an antisemite. It's mixed with Muir, well, gaslighting up a storm, talking about how people are being conditioned these days to react without thinking to things they read online when, well, that's your strip, Chris. That's what you do. 

I'll give him this, it's the most interesting thing he's done in months. Possibly years.

That said, I don't think there's a mystery here. Muir is reading a lot more paleocon type sites these days that don't like Israel and paint it as a sinister force corrupting American politics. Because Muir is nothing if not pliable--at least when facing people peddling their wares in the Right Wing Pseudopopulist dressing that he'll buy anytime--he's moving on from his previous half-hidden antisemitism, that was aimed at the imagined "Rootless Cosmopolitan" set to a more traditional antisemitism. But, as I've noted elsewhere, that's not popular with his audience. So what he's doing right now is sowing the seeds to let him make these points in the strip by trying to create a halfway house for the Peanut Gallery to live in when he does this. 

Will it work? It might, these people are about as pliable as he is in these matters. Whatever it is, we are definitely in a new era of the strip. May God help us all.

Muir Tries To Dig Up, Stupid.

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case.

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Still trying to prove he isn't antisemitic by using more antisemitism. It's a bold strategy, Cotton.

And That Was When Skye Realized The Menace Of The ZOG.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Old Fashioned Murder.

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Again, you just know that in some future strip, Muir will be explaining that Democrats are the real Nazis. For seeking the support of Black women.

I'd Say 'Mask Off Moment' But At This Point It's More 'Groucho Glasses Off'.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Fade in to Murder.

"There you go again, responding to my antisemitism like its antisemitism, you conditioned liberal stooge."

Would Moscow Lie To Her?

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Last Salute to the Commodore.

 Watching Muir parrot the Kremlin's talking points, right down to the traditional Russian paranoia about the UK, sure is a thing.

Welp, Now He Has To Draw A Black Woman As Hitler Again...

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Now You See Him...

You know, I always knew this day was coming, the day when Muir more or less announced that he now viewed WWII as a mistake. I just thought he'd underline it a bit more instead of more or less flippantly tossing it out there.

Muir Now Bemoans All Wars That Aren't The US Unilaterally Imposing Its Will On Brown People.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because A Matter of Honor.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again--Muir has managed to find the one foreign policy worse than his old neo-con one. 

"Our Opponents Are Just Filth, And The Proof Is We Say They Are."

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Identity Crisis.

As usual, the projection is total, right down to the projection. How can it not be, when you've declared evil good and darkness light?

Soon, She'll Be Talking About Replacement Theory.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because A Case of Immunity.

Muir's utter pliability remains as comical as it is disgusting.

Same as his racism, though that one the disgust level is higher.

How Dare They!

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Forgotten Lady.

Remember when Muir was whining because Texas wasn't conspiring against the government enough? And the entire plotline about the county seceding?

I'd say that I'm not sure he does, but let's be honest, that's part of Muir's eternal belief that the real for true Constitution is that everything his fascist overlords do is legal, and anything to oppose it is illegal, and if what's written down says otherwise, it must be some kind of sinister plot.

He's Really Dragging This Quasi-Plot Line Out, Isn't He?

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because A Deadly State of Mind.

This seems a good place to point out how abstracted Muir's gotten from the Trump administration. Nothing about Canada. Nothing about Greenland. Nothing about tariffs. Next to nothing about Ukraine. A few chuckles about all those fired federal workers--they're people Muir wants hurt, the swine--but even then, not much. He's already turning the Trump administration into an abstraction.

"Yes, Because They Are All Parasites And Wreckers!"

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

There's just so many different brands of awful in this one strip. We've got the hideous family dynamics Muir assumes are heartwarming, the blind hatred of government workers that he thinks shows what a clear-sighted patriot he is, instead of a deluded nitwit, and of course, the hypocrisy that insists that his enemies are supposed to buckle always buckle, for Muir is in the right, and his wins are great and sweeping, but that he needs never do the same, because his defeats only happen because they cheated, somehow.

And then there's the fact that the whole thing takes way too long to parse.

The Family Dynamics Here Are Just Horrifying.

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Troubled Waters.

Ahh, yes, nothing protects debate like people threatening each other with lethal weapons.

Child-Rearing And Separation Of Powers. Two Things Muir Doesn't Get.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because By Dawn's Early Light.

Times like this, you get very glad Muir doesn't have real kids.

The Hivemind Agrees That Muir's Projection Is Completely Accurate.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Negative Reaction.

There's something truly wretched in Muir declaring his latest bit of describing his enemies as himself, and insisting that caving to a fascist nation is disloyal, as totes accurate through all his sock puppets, including the one who he used to use as a Straw Leftist.

A Reminder That Muir's Issues Have Issues.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because An Exercise in Fatality.

...You know of all the unfathomable bits of weirdness in this strip that Muir's damaged psyche hurls at us, the sex robot jokes are the ones that get me stumped.

And I have laughed at pieces of entertainment that have sex robot jokes, so it's not just that. Off the top of my head, it's the sense that Muir seems to have no inkling how bizarre the situation he's depicting is.

So, Just More Of This Then.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because A Friend in Deed.

It says something that a strip as terrible as this is a relief, because it's just Muir being awful and inane, instead of something worse.

Who Doesn't Want Muir's Badly Traced Women, He Asks?

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Swan Song.

Muir's clearly reaching for some sort of metaphor here. But clumsily, and in a manner that winds up communicating how icky his entire worldview can get at times.

And So, With The Pretense Of Danger Dealt With Yet Again...

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Mind Over Mayhem.

How many times has it been stressed that all the compound's foes are simply cowardly, weak and inferior?   And yet Muir returns to the well, to demonstrate his racism and incompetence at plotting yet again...

See! Totes Not Dead!

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Publish or Perish.

Well, he's definitely putting all of his complexes on display in one strip.

Remember, She's Totally Not Killing Him!

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Double Exposure.

Won't lie, in these bleak times, there's something satisfying in laying out exactly the fucked up way this will proceed and then Muir doing just that.

John Fogerty Joins The List.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Candidate For Crime.

As Muir adds yet another artist to the list of those who he owes an apology, or a clean shot at his face, let's consider that this is almost the distilled essence of these strips--ugly art over childish fantasies of violence where Muir keeps insisting that, no, no, his cast aren't killing people, even though it's implied they kinda are.

The Strange Gutlessness Of Muir's Racist Propaganda.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Any Old Port In a Storm.

Once again, the entire point of the racist caricatures is to be bludgeoned by the invincible power of the Compound, who may be theoretically threatened, but never threatened in truth.

All The Subtlety Of 'Der Sturmer'.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Lovely But Lethal.

You just know Muir used 'Google Translate' for that dialogue.

Making Up Threats To Wile Away The Time.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Double Shock.

...There's something truly wretched in this, Muir tossing out this mass of racism, paranoia and lies to produce the latest enemy to let his racist militia show how tough and real Murican they are.

Like A Kid Pretending To Be Pals With Batman. Only Completely Repugnant.

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Most Dangerous Match.

I'll give Muir this. FAFO is a better stupid-meme name than DOGE.

Which says so much about the fascist dipshits presently running things, doesn't it?

So Much Bullshit On Display.

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because A Stitch In Crime.

So we've got the vicious bloodlust that thinks it's righteous, the latest sovereign citizenship declaration from Muir--and I'm left wondering if the 1913 betrayal is the income tax, the direct election of senators, the federal reserve, or all three--but let's move past that. Sam declares herself part of the Middle Class, the true herrenvolk who have been abused by the sinister wreckers. 

So, apparently owning a vast ranch, with robot agents, and a gold depository is all just being part of the Middle Class.

Muir Makes Up Traitors To Dodge What His Heroes Are Doing.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Requiem For a Falling Star.

Muir appears to have cobbled this insane little conspiracy theory out of misunderstanding a newspaper, and of course, hating everyone who dares disagree with Il Puce, and thinks that fascism isn't patriotic.

The Arrogance Of The Ignorant.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Dagger of the Mind.

There's a lot to unpack in this awful little strip. There's Muir sneering at civil servants who have worked for the nation he claims to love and assuming that they must all be decadent worthless scum, people who have done more than for it than he ever has. There's the strange clunky tone where Muir, trying to portray he and his as the good guys winds up making them seem, well, just what they are--the barbarians at the gate, looking to tear it all down. Musk and Trump are closer to Muir's version of Nero than the people he's insisting are shoe-ins.

Of course the other point that must be made is that Muir's version of Nero is nonsense--a creation only of his shallow knowledge of popular history. The Roman Empire had centuries ahead of it after Nero--hell, a millennium and change for some portions of it. Muir clearly doesn't realize this. He clearly doesn't realize much about Roman history or any history at all. He talks about it a great deal, makes noises about how important it is--but he doesn't seem to actually study it that much.

Lazy Racism In A Lazy Strip.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Most Crucial Game.

There's something quietly astonishing about how Muir can't help, even when he is making these nonsense accusations to tell himself that no, no, the Democrats have never won, they've always been cheating, in indulging in a brittle nasty reactionary racism that demonstrates, yes, he's the bad guy.

Easing Himself Back Into It, It Seems.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Greenhouse Jungle.

The irony of the man who was calling everyone else a GigaChamberlain during Iraq going full 'This is all happening in distant places of which we know nothing" over a fascist invasion continues to be biting.

Illness Gets Us This Little Dose Of Crazy.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Etude in Black.

Muir's lesser option to extra-judicial murder is simply causing a constitutional crisis.

The man who constantly insists that the Democrats want to break the law insists that Trump should just break the law. But obviously, this doesn't count to his mind.

The Untermenschen Object To Our Plans To Destroy The Nation!

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Blueprint for Murder.

'How dare they be outraged by my wishes to see them bloodily destroyed!' stands right there with 'How dare they go about their business when I hate them!' as sentences that demonstrate the speaker's status as human garbage. And that is basically what Muir's rants have been over the last few years.

One Panel Of Crazy Assertions. That's The Strip.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Short Fuse.

Again, the ease with which Muir has decided an organization he likely didn't even know about was the realtrue enemy is both alarming and pathetic.

Muir Thinks That Thing Is Sexy.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Lady in Waiting.

Mr. Family Values. To be fair, looking at the Sam Shark Face stitched on to that body is bound to increase chastity.

USAID Is The New DEI.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Suitable for Framing.

As we stare at Muir's latest second hand conspiracy theory, which will be a simple fact of the world until it suddenly isn't, I feel once again obligated to note how dull it is that Muir's cast are always treated as privileged elites who must be petted, feted, and most of all, obeyed.

Reveling In His Own Awfulness.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Dead Weight.

You know, there's gonna be a lot of darkly amusing unpersonings happening in the years and months ahead.

Who Is Talking In That First Panel, And Why Do They Look Like An Ugly Muppet?

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Death Lends a Hand.

It's says something that Muir's Evil Conspiracy of Evil can only ineffectually pester the protagonists while causing hideous damage to their own side.

Well, That's Ghastly.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Murder by the Book.

The crossover of Muir's clear admiration for the horrors of incompetence that are Musk's men from MEME, and his hideous murderous fantasies are... well, a thing.

A reminder that Muir used to feel we had an obligation to act against people who wanted to do things like this. But that was different. Those people were brown.

USAID! Muir Always Knew It Was Them! Even When It Was Immigrants, He Knew It Was Them!

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ransom for a Dead Man.

The chemical marriage of Muir's pregnancy fetish and the imbecilic conspiracy theory of the day. 

Classic.

Muir Discovers A Claim Made Over A Decade Ago.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Prescription: Murder.

Needless to say, plenty of people dispute the supposed DNA evidence as "proof".

And then there's trying to connect a 19th century Polish Jew immigrant to London to modern immigration to the United States.

Because it's all the same, right?

Children's Ice Cream, Mandrake!

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Enough Rope.

Sometimes I wonder if even Muir can keep the batshit Mad Libs that have become his theories of how the world operates straight.

And other times I know the answer is no.

A Reminder That These Girls Were Born Twenty Years After The End Of The Cold War.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Earl of Derby.

It's not just the warped worldview on display here--it's the old "Muir blabbing about things he doesn't understand'. Hell, Kiko's malapropism--which by the way would be hard to catch in a conversation--is arguably the least wrong thing of the wrong things she said.

Muir Reiterates That Racism Solves Everything.

 It's the Day's Day of Days!  Because who loves ya, baby?

You know, the quietly awkward thing about this strip is that just a few months ago, Gunpowder was a separatist state filled with right-thinking volk who all cheerfully agreed about fighting the immigrant menace. And now... that's all gone. 

Mind you can all just blink back into existence at a moment's notice. Like the robots. 

The Evil Conspiracy Of Evil Changes What It Always Was Yet Again.

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

Always great to see Muir going back to the antivax well. You'd think he'd notice that he keeps having to kick back when it's going to make people drop like flies, but then, he's good at not noticing things.

The Enemy Subversives Are EVERYWHERE!

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Western Kentucky Hilltoppers.

You know, in that whirlwind of crazy bullshit, I'm just going to focus on one little thing--for all the Trump praise in that, Muir is repeating the Musk party line in this strip. Now, Musk is very much setting himself up for a fall, so I really have to wonder what Muir's going to do when he has to treat Musk as an unperson and start insisting that obviously, he never supported the stuff that he was supporting when Musk was a Stalwart Ally.

More Breastfeeding, And More Sneering.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because my grandfather's clock was too tall for the shelf, so it stood ninety years on the floor.

One can always count on Muir to explain how every section of the government that isn't run by fascists is just corrupt and incompetent, because only his sort of people know how to do anything, he's sure of it.

Just look at the track record.

Muir Reiterates That Racism Is Always The Answer.

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Lesley the Great escaped with a CHICKEN?

...This is going to be the next four years. Muir insisting that every failure--and there will be many failures--is the result of Democrats not letting Whites run everything.

Because he is a deluded racist shit.

It Will Doubtless Be As Successful As The Last War They Did It For.

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Queens of Noise.

And after years of screaming about how Biden was an evil warmonger, Muir salivates over the prospect over sending troops to Mexico and Venezuela to "fight cartels". Because doing that is just being sensible, not like helping a nation fight off an invasion.

Also, Muir's clear nostalgia for the early Iraq War days shines through in that strip, like tire yard that's on fire.

He Really Thinks It Will Be This Easy.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Simon and Simon.

As Muir continues his fascist fantasies, it's hard not to shake your head at the belief that all they have to do is just show up and they'll win, with the entire civil service just collapsing at the awesome presence of Real Muricans. 

Meanwhile, in the real world, the Trump admin is trying very bad bribes to get rid of people.

Always Be Self-Owning.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Beverly Garland.

This is where Muir is now, not just sneering at anyone who works for the government, but imagining a strip where he depicts their foes as faceless goons is somehow brilliant propaganda.

You See? He's Calling Them Vermin, Which Is A Very Funny Thing To Do!

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because a new god, but a very hard worker.

One wonders what he's going to be using for his next Two Minute Hates, when DEI loses its savor.

It always happens, after all.

The Right Can Do Whatever They Like Because Their Opponents Must Be Degenerates.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Shotgun Snap.

A reminder that every damn time a fascist government goes down, it turns out all the shit they insisted their opponents were doing, they actually were.

I'm expecting a lot of ugly shit to come out, in a few years.

Delusion And Projection. Over And Over.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Hey, Hey, Hey.

The man whose chosen champions keep failing catastrophically babbles about the same racist theories, and declares using anything but dehumanizing slurs is some sort of sinister conspiracy. Because he can't be the one playing a nasty rhetorical game. Just can't. All his hate is just common sense.

A Sentiment He Imagines Has Never Been Uttered Before.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Belgian Butter Waffle Crisps.

There's something to be said about Muir's ability to do a self-own at times like this. He really thinks this sounds patriotic and folksy, instead of like a redneck Nazi.

How Dare They Be Pardoned Of Things That Aren't Even Crimes!

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Cherry Bomb!

The man is bitching because he won't get vicious show trials while viewing the pardoning of attempted putschists as righteous.

Remember, they don't want law and order. They want free licence for themselves and their opponents persecuted for just not being them.

This Time He's Sure Trump Won't Disappoint Him!

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Prescription: Murder.

Aside from Muir once again demonstrating his ability to blow up his own arguments and gloat while doing so, we've also got another demonstration that his great and abiding love of the Constitution doesn't mean actually following it.

So Just More Of This, Eh?

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Maya the Bee.

It's hard not to see this as Muir both stumbling on having no idea how to proceed, and a niggling awareness how empty it all feels to him. This is supposed to be a moment of triumph for him, but even his gloating seems half-assed.

That Vague Awareness Seeps Through.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Hare's Lament.

We see it every now and then. Muir knows on some level that Trump is a blustering, egotistical imbecile. He just convinces himself that these are good traits that make a strong leader.

PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Flying Dutchman.

I keep noting you can count on Muir to take a joke that is at least competently delivered through brevity and then bludgeon it into the ground by dragging it out and filling it with crazy.

*Drum Roll*

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Foggy Dew.

Let's prepare for four more years of Muir insisting failure is sparkling success. It makes the irony of these strips hit harder.

Clearly, It Has To Be One Of These Things, Because There Is No Carol In HR.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Twelve Medieval Ghost Stories.

The fascinating thing is that even when Muir shows a glimmer of awareness of how crazy he sounds, he still assumes that some of the insanity has to be right.  Things can't just happen, and Blue States can never be simply the victims of misfortune. No everything has to be a plan, and the evil degenerates must deserve it.

The Pepe Silvia Meme, In Hateful DbD Form.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Fenstanton Witch.

...

This manages to be awful and pathetic simultaneously.

Looking For Any Excuse To Get Mad.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because A Vignette.

It's pretty clear by this point that Muir's just going to give us distorted rumors and outright lies about the LA wildfires to explain how his sort are the real victims here, and also, Californians had it coming. Which is all kinds of sickening.

He Doesn't Need To Understand Things.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Malice of Inanimate Objects.

As we get the usual Muir blather and projection--remember how this man has spent the past two and a half decades blaming an assortment of Democrats for everything--there is one interesting aspect to this. That first bit, while almost certainly a bullshit Right Wing internet rumor, involves the sort of complicated decision that most governments face regarding environmental factors. And Muir naturally dismisses this as idiocy because he just can't imagine that yes, people do have to figure out how to manage natural resources. He's reached a position of completely useless contrarianism on this, where he doesn't even have a proposal, just him whining 'nuh-uh!' and then snickering.

Not that he's better on most subjects, mind you.

See? They Like It!

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Experiment.

Every now and then, the essentially masturbatory nature of this strip comes to forefront in a non-softcore strip.

Muir Knows A Repressive Sexist Theocracy Would Be Great, And That Bigoted Men Running Things Would Solve All Problems.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Wailing Well.

Watching Muir segue from last strip's 'wimmenz is to blame!' to missing the point of The Handmaid's Tale is a surprisingly 'nod along' moment--this is all, well, what you'd expect from Muir. About the only interesting aspect of this strip is a surprise appearance of 'Foil Sam', those rare occasions I've mentioned where Sam actually takes a different position from Zed so that a strip can have a back and forth discussion. It seems particularly odd here, because Sam's been happily making these sorts of statements herself in recent years.

Muir Gets Some Racism In His Misogyny.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because After Dark in the Playing Fields.

...

Well. That bit of awfulness speaks for itself.

No, Muir, It's Climate Change.

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

Muir and his fellow troglodytes sneer at women who are actually putting their lives on the line to fight this disaster, and insist that somehow they are to blame.

Because Muir is a weak man who thinks he's strong, and a fool who thinks he's wise.

He's Really Straining For That Punchline.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because There Was a Man Dwelt By a Churchyard.

To Muir it's racist for the cops to shoot White people committing violent crimes. Provided they're fascists, mind you.

I think it's implicit that them shooting not-White people for just about anything is fine.

They Are Just Asking Questions. Honest.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because An Evening's Entertainment.

What reason could a Black police officer to shoot a White woman smashing through a window with an armed mob behind her besides racism is all he's asking.

It's just one huge ask.

It's Gonna Be A Long Four Years.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because A Warning to the Curious.

My consolation to all the loud insisting of how righteous January 6th was is the section of the public that has been trying to memory hole it will fail to because of that, and will come to realize, first gradually, and then all at once,  just what they've allowed to rule over them.

Well, Now We Know Who He'll Choose In The Divorce.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because A View From a Hill.

A reminder that there's no idol Muir can't turn on.

Hugo's Argentine Childhood Has Helped Him Grow Up A Good Little Hitler Youth, I See.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because A Neighbor's Landmark.

As opposed to his sister, Hugo seems to be pure hivemind, blithely repeating Muir's vision of the collapsing Blue States, racist drivel, and of course, his nonsense understanding of what socialism and capitalism are.

Muir Vindicating Himself.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Uncommon Prayer-book.

I know I've said this before, but there's something quietly amusing about how Muir has his straw lefties vindicate EVERY single thing he whines about. Right down to what's on TV.

Skye's Politics Have Changed. She Has Not.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Haunted Doll-House.

Muir's constant declarations of superiority to things like the NYT have the air of someone ranting about getting over their ex sometimes.

And That Immediately Makes Up For Years Of Neglect!

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Two Doctors.

It says something that Muir's efforts to make the "reformed" members of his cast more likable in his eyes invariably make them worse.

You Know She Thinks She's The Fun Aunt.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance.

I'm going to try and enjoy Muir writing Eva here as a character, as pretty soon she's just going to be yet another hivemind member.

Though as usual, Sam is reminding us all how awful she is.