It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Beasts of Paradise.
I know I keep saying this, but I find Muir's efforts to dress up his awfulness with the pretensions of high culture and historical knowledge so tedious. Because in the end, his knowledge is just like the philosophy he's using them to try to support--shallow and false.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Terror Trail.
This is a brand of Muir strip that I've seen before. He pulls this sort of smug both-siding when he sees defeat looming in the distance. Partially to create a reality where, no, no, a loss isn't coming up, the Dems are naturally inferior, they're scum, they can't win, and partially to tell himself that, nah, he's not gonna be the loser, it's the dirty GOP who just won't commit, if they were just more tuff, they'd win. And so he pretends he's not one of the guys attached to the loss, he's part of the vital resurgent new political movement that will soon claim its natural place!
It's more pleasant than admitting he's an old reactionary nitwit who's watching the program he backed collapse into disaster.
Yet again.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Adventures of Peg O' the Ring.
A reminder that Muir isn't talking about the January 6th thugs, whose release by pardon he saw as just and good, but about the various people that the Trump Regime has had to let go because they arrested them speciously. Because due process is for he and him, except, no, they also want a free out when it finds them guilty of the crimes they inevitably commit.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because A Woman in the Web.
So, this is the next week and a half, eh? Muir whining and begging for more money while insisting, no, no, that's not what he's doing.
...
Oh, boy, that's going to be tiresome.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Green Archer.
I'm torn between the delight of watching Muir sporadically attack Trump and Company in his latest Purity Spiral, the quiet horror that it's because he's achieved a new level of Actual Nazi, and the sad amusement was that was what it took for him to realize that, no actually Israel's government is kind of awful and a terrible ally.
Complicated feelings for such an awful strip.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Adventures of Tarzan.
Muir's always been prone to grumble whenever Trump's shown any openness to gun control. But the grumbling seems a bit nastier these days, and his faith in the man much much shoddier.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Phantom Rider.
Man, at the bottom of it all, this is just sad.
I mean, there's a lot of clutter here. We see Muir celebrating the Trump Administration's elevation of crudity and sexism, him talking about how look how him attacking Federal agencies and alliances is good, great, so amazing. Because he's locked himself in a hermetic bubble and thinks this drivel is patriotism. But the doubts are still there, and have if anything grown worse. Note that they've spread from Sam, who remember as his feminized Id is supposed to be saying things that his toxic masculinity sees as too emotional, to Zed, his idealized self, the version who is supposed to be him as he wishes was. He's supposed to feel that it's worth staying the course.
And so we get this strip of Zed talking about how he needs reality to see through the fake things online.
Ignoring that he and this strip are... fake things online.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Purple Monster Strikes.
Ahh, Muir's cast is going to have a chat with the imaginary version of Trump they're sort of friends with. I expect an epic attempt at squaring the circle.
Muir's simultaneous hatred of and longing to belong to the upper class explains so much of his character. Especially when you add in that his political stance, with its lack of any belief in economic justice, leaves him muttering how he knows that obviously, he doesn't resent their wealth, oh no, that's totally okay.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Federal Operator 99.
The Gnostic reality shifts and Muir insists this shows how clever he is, as he sneers at alliances, sneers at Congress, and imagines that this boondoggle is somehow going to be a cost-saving measure.
This is simultaneously creepy and sad.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Masked Marvel.
...
As I have noted, there is no idol Muir and his ilk won't discard if it becomes inconvenient.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Daredevils of the West.
While I'm certain Muir's leaving room to assert that he still believes in Il Puce, really, it's hard not to see this as fairly stark demonstration of his present alienation. He saw Trump 2.0 as a victory, and he's gotten this muddle. Partially because he trusts the worst people, and partially because he's a whiny little fascist who wants the worst things, many of which they couldn't give him if they were actually... well, competent.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Lone Ranger Rides Again.
And Muir once again indulges in this bathetic whining, insisting that the only reason electing an incompetent, clownishly corrupt narcissist hasn't worked out is some evil conspiracy, and insisting that his people don't really control things, and also, all his opponents are pedophiles.
All of which is a bit much in the present circumstances.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Vigilantes Are Coming.
Sometimes, Muir imagines worlds where his losses are really victories. And sometimes, he does this, imagines worlds where his causes are incredibly popular and self-evidently right, held back only by the treachery of the weak establishment. (To make it clear, while a few portions of the SAVE Act are broadly popular, largely because many people don't know they aren't necessary and don't understand how disenfranchising they'd be, it's not enjoying some immense groundswell of support.)
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Philo Vance's Gamble.
I won't lie, as bad as the strip is, it's a bit of a relief seeing Muir finally noticing the national debt during a Republican administration, instead of just pretending it doesn't matter. Of course, that noticing is couched in paranoia, delusion, and a complete misunderstanding of government spending, finance and economic realities. But it all suggests that Muir's rapidly shifting into just abandoning caring about actual politics because 'conspiracy', and that cheers me.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Cole Murder Case.
There's something almost awe-inspiring in the number of times Muir has declared the conspiracy theory of the day proven, and then just moved on when, no, it wasn't, actually, in fact it was bullshit.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Winter Murder Case.
How happy is Muir with things? So happy he's proposing 'not voting' as the answer.
No doubt Phase 3 of this brilliant plan is "PROFIT!", right after Phase 2 "???".
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Kidnap Murder Case.
Muir is saying this in a situation where the Republicans hold both branches of Congress. Because even their present disgraceful obsequiousness isn't enough, and the fact that they could lose in the near future has to be some sort of plot. Because Muir knows if the things he supports don't work, it's because of treachery, and if his side loses the election, the other side cheated. Or shouldn't have been allowed to vote in the first place.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Scarab Murder Case.
As Muir reminds us that A) he will entertain downgrading the cast's circumstances, but he won't commit to it, B) El Dorado Dad is fucking scum, and C) Muir has completely turned on a Congress that the Right largely controls, let's just really soak in the... art of today's strip, because... damn. El Dorado Dad's mustache looks very close to a crudely drawn mouth. That is just... shit.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because flambe.
I've said it before, and I will say it again--Muir's appearance of fanatical loyalty to any individual is always a pretense. It is a lie he tells himself and others because he wishes to be seen as a man with such loyalty, following an individual worthy of such loyalty. It's never about the idol, it's about Muir, and whenever it seems to Muir that sticking with it is no longer worth it, we get bits like this great anime betrayal.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because happiness was just a word to me.
Muir blubbers about the poor Groypers.
Who frequently admit that they're Nazis. I think it's safe to say he's lost the plot.
