MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSHIN.

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Secret Agent X-9 (1937).

Once you get past the usual Muir self-righteous bullshit, where he screams about degeneracy while drawing up lousy nudie pics, it gets really striking what a funk these results have gotten him into. This is probably the most shaken by a midterm result I've ever seen him. As I've noted before, he pretty much treated 2006 like a fluke, and 2018, well, then he thought Trump was magic and it was part of the plan to defeat the Democrat conspiracy forever. For now, he's honestly in the Slough of Despond, and unable to bullshit himself out of it the way he used to.

"Also, Senator, You Are A Doodyhead, Who Smells Bad!"

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Jungle Jim.

It's genuinely kind of amazing how pathetic he's been over the last few days.

The Transition Era; Part 9: The Democratic Party Shocks Muir By Not Following The Script In His Head.

As I noted, Muir was convinced that Hillary Clinton was going to be the Democratic candidate. This wasn't remarkable. Most people did think this would happen, so you can't blame him for thinking that.

What was remarkable was both his deadpan arrogant certainty this would be so when things started and his initial utter bafflement when they didn't. Muir had nearly no material about Obama at the start, just a few lazy comments about him being a lightweight and how it was totally racist to think electing a Black man was good. Muir was much more focused on Hillary, and frankly even more focused on his bitter disappointment that McCain was winning the nomination. Indeed, as Obama did well, Muir even showed a bit of admiration, allowing Damon to say he was considering voting for him, a character beat that would soon vanish completely. This was a brief flash, and it should be noted that just a week earlier, he'd had Sam compare Michelle Obama to Hitler (all while insisting this wasn't a Godwin's rule situation, which, yes, it obviously was). It ultimately underlines not only how much Muir despised Hillary more at this point, but also his massive distaste for McCain. As noted, it didn't last--Muir as usual got his opinions from other Right Wingers and treated them as marching orders, something we will look at in the future.

Eventually, as things went on, Muir began a crude effort to try and illustrate the perceived Democratic split, turning Skye into an Obama supporter while continuing Jan's support of Hillary. Muir was clearly very encouraged by the loud, largely online phenomena of PUMAs, and regularly depicted Jan as angry and bitterly offended. (This is another thing we'll consider more later.) Skye meanwhile was depicted, per usual, as a vain faddist, letting her choices be dictated by whatever the crowd was following at the moment. Her arguments for Obama were always depicted as shallow and ill-considered, in what amounted to the classic Muir 'my enemies are all morons' projection. But even this was largely perfunctory. 

What really hangs over the early months of 2008 is Muir's inability to really find a genuine direction, made worse by his inability to understand what he was looking at or even to adjust to reality as it happened. Both of which are absolutely necessary for a functional political satire. But then, DbD was already transforming to something odder, and more personal, as we'll deal with in the next post.

"Waaaah, Dey Pickin' On Me!"

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ace Drummond.

Hey, remember when they tried to make Kirk a martyr, and persecuted people who weren't shook up he died and it failed, and turned him into an internet joke?

Good times. Good times.

And Back To The Collapse...

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Phantom Rider.

And now we're back to acknowledging the loss and being pissed at Trump. Will this last? Hell no, for most of it, he'll be back to explaining how this is just the Democrats cheating, but he does seem to be running out of any and all patience with Trump. For many reasons that are abhorrent but so it goes.

Living In The Eternal Seethe.

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Flash Gordon.

Ahh, yes, Muir blubbering about the constitution that lives in his head where the Right can throw out any vote they lose, and that any vote they win is an eternal mandate, and means those voters were 100% behind the ethnic cleansing, even if they say, no, no they're not, please lighten up on that. Because he knows he and his have to be the eternal majority. They just have to be.

A Pivot So Fast, I Think I Got Whiplash.

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Adventures of Frank Merriwell.

The fascinating thing is not just Muir turning on Trump, but turning on him for something he probably isn't even doing. I mean--I'm in the weeds on what Muir's talking about here, and I suspect that if we check, whatever this is either isn't happening or isn't happening this way.