The Name Of The Ship Is 'Toxic Masculinity'.

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Bronze Door.

'Why can't I find a woman?' Muir occasionally asks himself.

They Cannot Protect Themselves From Those Sex-Crazed Savages.

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because I'll Be Waiting.

As Muir continues to insist that it's women's own fault that they're going to be mass-raped by Johnny Foreigner, we watch Sam continue to fail to be a real girl as she tells us that feminism was only ever a conspiracy, because things were great in the before times.

It's easy to insist the past was great when you just ignore everything bad that happened.

He Honestly Doesn't Realize What That Fucking Punchline Is Saying...

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Trouble Is My Business.

It says something that Muir uses the false racist rumor for why a Scottish girl was arrested for brandishing to transition into his old hobby horse of why women are responsible for the evil Muslim horde because of their leftist voting, letting in the evil Muslims, who... don't let women vote, one of the reasons they're evil, but not the main one, not doing it would be fine if it were done in the right way, which they just can't do.

Look, just don't think about it. Muslims bad, girls dumb and also bad.

Everyone Is Ultimately A Heretic.

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Pearls Are a Nuisance.

All the damage Trump has done to higher education, and it still isn't enough for Muir, whose plan now appears to be "destroy all the things that the US's power is based on", followed by "insisting this happened because you didn't destroy enough when the nation suffers for it".

Never Forget Adrenochrome!

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Big Sleep.

And another small fry crazy Right-winger whose name Muir has misspelled, though Elizabeth belongs to the 'once respectable(ish) journalist who got the brainworms' school. She's also largely a Canadian crazy, so I blame the shockingly significant Far Right Canadian contingent of the Peanut Gallery for this.

They All Know There's No One You Can Trust Like A Random Online Nazi.

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Lady in the Lake (1939).

It's been fascinating over the years, watching Muir's praising ever more marginal figures on the Far Right. (You can tell how marginal Franssen is by the fact that Muir misspelled his name.)  Part of this has been Muir's shift to ever more-naked white supremacy--as I've noted, very little of Muir's actual politics have changed, it's just that he's grown more confident in his racism.

But only so confident, because that's another thing this strip underlines--Muir whines even when he's winning, because he wants a vague impossible victory where no one disagrees with him, and no one he doesn't like exists. Not only is it impossible because the path to it would be so horrific that things would collapse for his side well before they were anywhere close to completion, but if you were to wave a magic wand and give it to him, you just know it wouldn't satisfy. In a little while, Muir would be drawing new dividing lines to try and make sure there was an in-group and an out-group.

The ZOG Won't Catch Them Napping.

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Bay City Blues.

So, it was the Democrats' plot to first weaken the nation with... a world-wide pandemic, then the vaccine to that pandemic, which would of course, be used the most by people who support them, because they're sheeple, and also...

I won't lie, the antivaxx shit just gets more incoherent every time Muir brings it up.

...Okay.

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The King in Yellow.

I know I've said it before, but the shout-outs to fans keeping getting fucking weirder and weirder.

Everything Is A Government Conspiracy Against Angry White Racists.

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Red Wind.

Ahh, yes. The government is somehow responsible for Cracker Barrel deciding its brand of kitsch-dining was declining and need a rebrand. And Land O'Lakes deciding to ditch its old logo.

Remember, if private companies make decisions Muir doesn't approve of, they're suddenly the government.

Always Be Whataboutin'!

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Mandarin's Jade.

And that justifies changing the map midsession specifically to screw Democrats!

The amusing thing is that Illinois (and Massachusetts, for that matter) are not so much gerrymandered as have Republican populations that are dispersed in such a manner that they have a very hard time winning a proportionate number of seats in the House there. But, no, no, trusting in rural resentment can't have drawbacks, anything the Democrats do has to be illegitimate and if they win, it has to be because they cheated.

Also note that he says this after insisting they were crawling back before at Paxton's idiot threats.

Back By Popular Demand.

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Try the Girl.

Ahh. Muir's breastfeeding fetish. Like the proverbial bad penny.

One Hopes She Wears Sunscreen.

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

First off of course, this is op piece that is in fact an interview that with one particular leftist, so not the opinion of the NYT, much less the Left as a whole.

Second it's both a bit rich and utterly typical that the guy who's proposed and backed coups when he loses insists that talking about making changes that range from 'utterly justifiable' to 'fairly well-reasoned' legally is some sort of insane woo-woo. But that's the thing--Muir is both ignorant and arrogant as regards the Constitution. It is both sacred writ that must never be changed, and ignore the fact that it has been changed, but also, window-dressing for the real Constitution that lets Muir do whatever he wants and sets all power at the county level, except when there's a Fascist running the show.

Old-Fashioned Family Values And Also Porn.

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

 ...

So, apparently, the Twins are just staying at 18 for now.

I'm not surprised.

Love Is A Four Lettered Word.

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Pickup on Noon Street.

...

If there's one thing Muir does reliably it's sleaze. Human relations and coherence he fails at, but sleaze, sleaze he can do.

Retcon A-Ho!

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Man Who Liked Dogs.

When I first saw this, my immediate thought was, "no, that's not how it happened, we saw them meet Muir!" But then I realized, clearly at some point with all the retcons, that original DbDverse became a different one  than the one they inhabit now, in the manner that at some point in the 60s, the Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman that DC comics were publishing were agreed to have become the Earth-1 Silver Age characters, with the original Golden-Age adventures all having happened to the Earth-2 versions. After all, the twins were now born before their parents were originally married. We are clearly dealing with versions of the characters quite distinct from the originals.

So with that out of the way, let's just shake our heads at the stupid sexism of this fucking strip.

Muir Wants Us All To Know He's Racist And Proud Of It.

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Guns at Cyrano's.

Won't lie, Muir reveling his own awfulness and the awfulness of the Trump administration is both tiresome and has the air of someone trying too hard.

Ah, He's Progressed To Open Slurs.

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Spanish Blood.

Won't lie, even if I've long expected he'd get this blatant, this was still vaguely disquieting.

Oh, How He Does Yearn To Watch A Bomber Burn.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Nevada Gas.

And now he's mentioned his desire to see the cities of his own nation bombed. Especially the capital.

But remember, he's a Real Murican patriot, he is.

Remember, The Cities Have Been In Continuous Riots For The Last Decade And A Half.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Killer in the Rain.

Is something wrong with Sam, beyond the obvious 'She's an evil bigot'? She's in the exact same position as the last strip.

Every Battle Is Reported As A Triumph, And Then Undeniable Defeat Happens.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Finger Man.

This is a grand tradition of this strip. Struggles are always depicted as the mighty USA/Republicans/Right Wing smashing their foes utterly. Muir crows and shouts it will always be thus. But it isn't even thus when he's shouting it, and we either get him pretending the supposed great battle didn't matter, or (more and more these days) the collapse into out and out conspiracy theory.

Over and over.

Oh, Ian Exists Again.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Smart-Alek Kill.

And Muir remembers the subplot he let languish and essentially die. Though Mari, in honor of her faceless former love, turns into an abstract horror in the first panel herself, so yeah, that's a strip.

We Know He's An Asshole, Because That Conversation Didn't Send Him Rushing To The Exits.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Blackmailers Don't Shoot.

Sometimes Muir reminds you that he considers it oppression, not being able to be as much of bigoted prick as he wants. That awful shit is what he thinks dating in this country should be like.

Called It.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because For Your Love.

Heh. I knew it. Muir clearly wanted this guy to be Mari's new boyfriend... but the entire situation as written was having him interact, and showing surprisingly decent chemistry with Kiko.

So Muir did the obvious thing--scrap the entire plotline and then force things to go onto the expected path.

Right, Just Forget That Plot Was Happening. All A Dream.

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

Interestingly enough, while this superficially resembles Muir killing a plot via dream sequence because he can't let bad things happen to the cast, I'd argue this is more Muir killing a plot via dream sequence because he realizes well into starting it that it was a bad idea. Like Zed's short-lived twin brother. Or the time he was going to have Skye rape him.

So, That's His Car, Right?

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Lonely Vigils.

...

Nothing like badly traced static drawings of cars to convey drama.

Is She Talking, Or Gawking?

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Project A-ko.

...

This frickin' blocking, man.

So Apparently Kiko's Scar Has Spontaneously Returned.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because remember the Looney Tunes cartoons with the little flea prospector?

Obviously it would be a GOOD thing if she were being dragged off unconscious by her actual boyfriend.

Oh, that reminds me. It looks like the Ian protosubplot is dead and buried. And we never even got to see him.

Called It.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because George Montgomery.

It's not just the sheer laziness of the construction of this strip that gets me, it's lie at the heart of it. This is a crime that does not happen.

Oh, plenty of women get their drinks roofied. But not like this, not by mysterious strangers doing it for nebulous reasons that will doubtless be revealed as their inherent degeneracy. No, it is the crime of men who know their victims, at the very least a little. Entitled men, whose philosophy and gender politics are often very much like Muir's.

But of course, Muir's going to pretend otherwise. We're going to get another heaping helping of the man's projection.

"Time To Go Get My Virtue Threatened By The Untermenschen!"

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because yes, I can, yes, I can.

You know, after the lengthy build-up last time, it's funny to watch Muir rush to the chase and set up the inevitable sexual threat.

Really rush. I half expect to find he skipped a cartoon by accident.

Watching Them Once Again Fail To Be Real Girls.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Missile Command.

It looks like Teeter is joining 'weird alternate media thing run by a cast member' in the 'Plotline Muir keeps trying to run despite never being able to' bin. Remember how that visit to Teeter, after all that build up, turned into a tepid nothingburger that didn't so much end as it petered out?

Muir apparently doesn't. He's trying again.

Trying To Do Something With Teeter Again, I See.

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

It says something that when Muir intentionally writes his characters to be saying nonsense, they sound the same as always.