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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
