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.

...

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.