It's the Day's Day of Days! Because don't you come around.
On the one hand we have Muir's embracing of fascism in praise of his orange Leader, and the unpersoning of Pence, the latest administration figure to become a no-good-un, and Muir's continued insistence that he and is are JUST LIKE THE FOUNDING FATHERS.
On the other, no jokes about the hellspawn going through puberty, so, yeah, small mercies.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because those are the percentages.
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Sometimes Muir just underlines how out of it all he's gotten.
Thinking this is charming and funny is one of those times.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Atomic.
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God, I never thought I'd be hoping the strip would return to fascist conspiracy theory nonsense soon. Which shows that Muir can surprise you, even as he lives down to your expectations.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Hare's Lament.
In the near future, Muir will accuse his political opponents of being pedophiles again, because again, standards are for other people.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Dr. Psycho.
First it was 'Trump is going to win this election, easy!'.
Then it was 'The Supreme Court will show that we won!'.
Now it's 'We have to use extralegal violence to undo the cheating that cannot be legally proven, but which we know is there'.
It's cowardice, stupidity and projection, and the only thing one interesting is wondering what Muir's going to start saying after the 20th.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Typewriter in the sky.
And I dared briefly to hope that Muir might be packing it in.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Jackie Wilson said it was reet-petite.
It says something that Muir doesn't see the obvious contradiction between 'We must stop the coup by declaring martial law and voiding the previous election.'
Oh well. Here's the original version of Santa Baby by the late, great Eartha Kitt. I think she might not like Muir's take if she were still with us.
Just a hunch.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because let me sail, let me sail.
Does Muir realize that Trump gave Mitch's wife a Cabinet position?
And that she's Tawainese?
Of course not, that would require him to think about his racist bullshit.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because make room.
Ah, yes another, 'You are all so deranged to hate my awful champion!' And how is Muir dealing with the fact that Kayleigh is going to be out of a job in under a month?
By ignoring that at the moment, of course.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because in the Southern Cross.
Yes, we get Muir. Only tyranny is democracy, only treason is loyalty and only ignorance is strength.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because there was a beautiful land, a beautiful land called Fuh.
It's always fun watching Muir drag out his brand of "patriotism" where being a belligerent, entitled white guy who looks for reasons not to do things that are in his own best interest not to mention the interest of those around him is the greatest way to show you love his nation.
Because that's the kind of guy Muir is. A whiny, cowardly, stupid asshole who thinks being a whiny, cowardly, stupid asshole makes him smart, tough and brave.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because diving attempt.
You know, there's not much to talk about in Muir's ranting about the election and Biden--it's the usual paranoid blather and vile slander. But what is worth talking about is that Muir is pretending the hellspawn were in the public school system at some point, when he's always depicted them as little bubble children.
Because you have to claim that the evil gays want to corrupt our youth.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because April Bell.
It's kind of amazing watching Muir turn on every aspect of this government after this loss.
That he keeps insisting wasn't a loss.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because ticket to the moon.
I mean, bad joke aside, Javier can apparently break the laws of physics, so, yeah I can buy him as the senior partner in this concern.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Tunisia.
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I guess I'll look on the bright side--no crazy ranting about what's REALLY happening in the (long-completed) presidential race.
But we know it's coming.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because paging Pee-Wee Herman.
Watching Muir's growing mancrush on Musk take on such... odd dimensions surely is A Thing.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the ruins of Kandar.
One static panel, a bad joke, and the strange Elon Musk fanboyism.
Well, at least it isn't anymore insane racism and conspiracy theories. That's for tomorrow.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because ding dong merrily along.
Muir's turning towards Yellow Peril nonsense is definitely A Thing.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because bourbon and chess.
Muir would back the Confederacy 2.0 with this sort of lazy bullshit.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because running up the hill.
It's somehow both astonishing and inevitable to see the circle of the evil conspiracy widen to the point that it's pretty much the entire government. Though Muir's return to the secession well is well, of a piece.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ida is a sport.
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It says something that Muir's reasoning has become so convoluted and self-contradictory that he thinks calling for what amounts to a putsch doesn't constitute a refutation of the government.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because winner, winner, chicken dinner.
Muir's getting his delusional fascist hopes up again, I see. Wonder what the plan's going to be in a month or so. He keeps insisting it was actually something else every time the latest thing that it supposedly was falls through.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because look at Mother Nature on the run in the 1970s.
Ahh, yes. More projection of his own projection, now joined with some handy dandy Yellow Peril.
It's going to be a fun four years. Oh, such fun.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because come on darling, let's exchange experiences.
...And again, Muir projects his own projection, because of course.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Alastor.
So, obviously, as the only way the Democrats could possibly win is by cheating, anyone who says they cheated is telling the truth, and anyone who looks at what they say and declares it false has been subverted. Which is why the best thing to do is have a coup.
To save democracy. Obviously.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because another hit by Takitaki.
Ahh, yes. Nothing says quality thought than regurgitating second-hand bits and pieces of a misogynistic Macedonian who died over two thousand years ago that you think prove your point.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because back in black.
This reeks of the desperation to say something when you have nothing to say because you've tied yourself to a demeaning, futile struggle, and the results are the same--failure, over and over.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because bumbleberry pie.
Let's see how long this latest crazyass theory lasts. Not that Muir will ever admit he was wrong, but sometimes he shuffles over to a new one while pretending he didn't say what he said.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because David Lloyd George.
Because clearly a vote gap that is likely to wind up over six million HAS to be fraud, even if it isn't clear how that could be possible, or why the Democratic Party would be choose such a bizarre map, or how it is that downballot races weren't effected.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because a mighty wind is blowing.
It says something that Muir thinks Sam's bullying, toxic, narcissistic politics having finally browbeaten Skye into surrender is a good thing, and reflects well on her. But then that's the hivemind for you--a bunch of brittle little fascists who think that the fact they all agree shows what independent thinkers they are.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Coiley the Spring Sprite.
It's a lousy joke about Sam's cooking. And I'm happy because it's not insane ranting.
Tomorrow, most likely. And if not then, soon.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Dingle Foot. Yes, he's real.
It seems like Muir is starting to realize that the inevitable triumph isn't happening, and is thus moving to as close a counterfeit of acceptance as he can achieve.
Of course, I half expect him to start ranting about a new conspiracy theory that will make Trump president tomorrow, but then, I've been at this for awhile, and expecting Muir to do about-faces is... well, par for the course.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Care of Cell 44.
Muir talks about narcissism in a strip where he has a buff fictional version of himself and the hot female version of himself that serves as the former's pretend wife echo the same talking points back to each other.
If he were a fictional character I was writing, people would accuse me of being unsubtle.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because 49th 1/2 Street.
Muir is desperately hoping for something to happen to make him feel like a winner again. It keeps not happening, so he settles for lies.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because hey!
It's good to see that even hinting that you buy the crazy conspiracy doesn't save you from being turned into a foreign agent in crazyland now. The GOP has got a problem on its hands.
Sadly, so does the nation.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because come all you roving minstrels.
Muir's taking his copium double-strength now. Let's wait to see what becomes the new inevitable when the inevitable arrest doesn't happen and Biden really is the president.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because couldn't escape if I wanted to.
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Welp, let's prepare for four years of Muir insisting his cast are so, so persecuted by the commufascist left for all the crimes they commit.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because when I'm standing next to you.
At times like this you just know Muir would have been a bitching American Firster buying things on the black market and chuckling at all those chumps who followed rationing rules, telling all in sundry that they'd been fooled by Roosevelt.
He hates this nation, and he doesn't realize it.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because no two were wed without one has a sorrow that was left unsaid.
While Muir insisting that winning an election constitutes a coup is... well, to be expected by this point, it's the pedantry that gets me, especially as it's wrong. I mean one can argue that the Constitution didn't name the position of President-Elect, but as it did create the process of electing Presidents, and included a transition between a new President being elected and their taking office, with the expectation that this would be followed... well, yeah, it did create the office of President-Elect by default. Muir's argument is his classic fake-patriotism, screaming against long-standing custom because he's being asked to follow the rules.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because inquire for Reynardine.
I was planning on keeping this one for a week or two, but damn it, this is bad enough to rank it.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because he'll leave you with naught but rue.
Muir's rewriting of reality is developing a somewhat frantic tone--the Democrats are always obviously crooks. Trump was innocent, and shut up, don't bother him with your facts. As I said, the fact that the cavalry isn't coming, and indeed, doesn't even exist is starting to dawn on him, but Muir is doing his best to keep the truth buried in his subconscious.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because a giant walked.
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I think on some level, it's starting to sink in that the cavalry isn't coming. Even though he will loudly deny it for a few weeks.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Puss-in-Boots.
At this point, I really wonder if the 410 electoral landslide is going to become a permanent feature of Muir's crazy, or if this is just one of those things that Muir will believe for awhile, and then suddenly stop.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because to rouse the spirit of the earth.
So, about that map...
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because now we are six.
It's kind of amusing watching Muir cycle through denial, anger, bargaining, and then back to denial again in an endless loop. (More amusing than his new bestie Beale, who is stuck firmly on denial, posting 'Biden did not win' over and over again as if he can make it so by repetition.) We can even see the shape of Muir's worldview when the inevitable happens and Trump is no longer President--this was a coup, and it doesn't count, and anything to end this state of affairs, including an actual coup is kosher.
So, yeah. I expect a crazy four years.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because rooster.
This is what happens when you don't know what the hell you're talking about. Muir clearly thinks that all Trump has to do is sue, and the Supreme Court gets involved and then tosses out the election.
This isn't how it works.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Electric Avenue.
One of the bleakly amusing parts of Muir's ongoing collapse into naked fascism is watching him call all his opponents fascist in the manner of a freaking Comintern member from the 30s. I mean at this point, the 'women of color politicians are literally Hitler' gag isn't even a surprise.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because blubber.
The collapsing of Muir's epistemological universe to an ever smaller and crazier circle of delusional sources has been an ongoing cycle, where each fall into delusion helps trigger an even deeper fall when reality doesn't mach Muir's expectations. By this time, it's become abundantly clear that Muir will always choose to trust in his worst impulses rather than admit he was wrong, and that there's a sizable community that exists to help channel his sort into more an awful form of crazy.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because I'll keep it with mine.
Let's see what the crazy bullshit he believes next week, folks.
It's a Day's Day of Days! Because I do the best I can.
So, Muir has once again dipped into the well of Theodore Beale, aka Vox Day, another Right-wing nutter I keep eyes on. (The name of his blog, 'Vox Popoli' is a misspelling of the phrase vox populi. He insists it is not but is him doing the phrase in some strange Italianized version of Latin that doesn't exist. Insisting that his mistakes are not mistakes with elaborate nonsensical explanations why is something of a Beale calling card.) Beale is a white supremacist, misogynist, MRA, and anti-Semite. He also dabbles in Holocaust denial, Moon-landing denial, creationism, and various other brands of crazy. Beale loves to insist he's not a Nazi, but his denials read rather like notorious British fascist Arnold Leese who insisted that he didn't believe in the Holocaust because six million dead was chump numbers--Beale's biggest objection to the Third Reich is they lost. (Second biggest--they weren't Christian, though Beale's definition of Christian is so odd that trust me, the Reich largely fit it.) He regularly praises Norwegian mass murder Anders Breivik, and calls him 'Saint Anders'. He was also involved in the notorious three year attempt by the Alt-Right to hijack the Hugo Awards by mass slate voting during the nomination, which he used to get works by his awful publishing house to be finalists. (They all landed below No Award in votes.)
So, yes, quality people.
I'm saying all this to make it clear the road Muir's on now. He clearly needs validation, and well, Teddy's the guy for it. Beale declares victory with a dull regularity, and when reality does not oblige, explains how what has happened is exactly the victory he was talking about. So, as we await months of Muir declaring that the President-Elect is not the President-Elect, realize that his politics are likely going to get worse, people.
Oh, so worse.
Also, Beale appears to have noticed the praise--whether this leads to him trying to enlist Muir on one of his many money-making publishing schemes has yet to be seen. Let us wait to see if further nuttiness is down the road.
POSTSCRIPT--For more info on Beale, here is his rationalwiki entry. It has links to his blog, if like me, you are a masochist an, but I'm not going to link directly to it, partially because I'm not that cruel, and partially because Beale is quite fond of having his followers cyberstalk people.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because wherever I meet with a deck of cards, I lay my money down.
Of course, Gore was never 'President-Elect' for weeks. Further, Muir doesn't seem to realize that Trump is in the position that Gore was in.
Only for more states.
With larger margins.
So, yeah. Trump's lost.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Wigwam.
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Clearly, the Right will need an even bigger list, for its enemies, when it returns to power.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because oh, Billy, don't you turn your back on me.
The funny thing is Muir thinks this is a joke, and not an accurate display of his ignorance of history.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the flowers bloom like madness in the spring.
There's an embarrassment of crazy riches to... sample here. We start with Muir in pure Bizarro-Marxist mode, explaining the Iron Laws of history to us, demonstrating once again he's arrogant, ignorant blowhard who doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. We then move on to the desire for bloodletting, which would be terrifying, if we didn't have Muir absolutely pegged by now. He'll bluster, he'll beat up imaginary leftists in his awful cartoon, and that will be it.
He's lost. He lost when he won, honestly, because Muir wants things that can't happen. Because he's a nasty little cowardly fascist who hates this country, and thinks that he loves it.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because loop-di-loop.
You know, it's obvious we're being set up for a massive wall-of-text rant in Sunday's strip with this one. I'm just wondering what's going to happen now that Biden's won--are we going to get it as a sort of threnody, or is Muir going to give us a primal scream instead?
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because bramble.
Watching Muir suddenly notice the election after its over is certainly a thing.
Mind you, he'd be screaming fraud if it was a blowout for Biden, so really not much of a surprise here.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because it was a dinosaur.
Muir's arrogance is, as always, matched by his ignorance. But go on, Muir. Explain to us how elections working by the rules they've worked by for decades is somehow cheating.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Mango.
Called it.
Well, let's trudge through, folks. Got a long week ahead of us.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because he wears a white cockade.
This election day, Muir has retreated fully from the real world to dwell in one where his guy is great, and awesome, and the other guy is awful, and a pedophile, and EVERYTHING IS FINE.
Who knows what the hell tomorrow will bring, eh? Save that it will be unpleasant.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Secret History.
It's funny to note, as things wind down, that this year Muir has largely ignored the presidential race, preferring to dwell in an alternate world where everything is fine, Trump is doing well, and this whole democracy thing is just some sore losers about to get schooled by the Leader. But then, Muir's always been a rather frail little authoritarian under his bluster, as this strip illustrates. When things turn against him, he curls into a ball, whines about how mean people are being to him, and then shouts how things are going to be fine, just fine, and boy won't they be sorry when he really cuts loose.
It makes the roots of his Trump support fairly obvious.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Gaumont.
At times like this, the way Jan and Damon have become almost extraneous to this strip shines through. They no longer really discuss politics, because each of them have the same opinions now, they don't really have storylines, because nothing can really threaten them, and fundamentally, the strip isn't interested in them the way it is Zed and Sam. But they are long-standing cast, so they keep popping up, to be assholes.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Night of the Demon.
That entire exchange is word salad even by Muir's standards.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because a shame you see an honest man.
Watching Muir declaim on what leftist politics consists of is always weirdly fascinating because he clearly has no idea what he's talking about, but imagine he does.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because we just hate Dilbert.
Muir's descent into Nazidom has of course been followed by his screaming how his opponents are Nazis at an even more dizzying pace.
And trusting ever weirder randos on the series of tubes.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because they kiss on the ring; I carry the crown.
I'd ask if Muir even understands what a Truth & Conciliation Tribunal is, but he clearly doesn't. In the end, this Muir's eternal declaration that authority is bad if it ever calls him and his on the shit they do.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Simone Simon.
Muir's heading down crazier and crazier rabbit holes over the years has hit a new low of crazy, stupid and awful.
But rest assured, there's an even further depth in those categories he's going to plunge in the future.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Raffles Holmes & Co.
And Muir vanishes up the Right Wing's ass.
In some ways, this is a nicer place for him to dwell than reality, but only because he's become so toxic and lost in spiritual darkness that exposure to the metaphorical sunlight of reality might kill him.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Demona.
Insulting a dead woman, and screaming how Roberts is a filthy impure traitor because he didn't gut Obamacare.
Stay classy, Muir.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because a completely multi-purpose movie.
Muir's found yet another Jewish man to accuse of being a Nazi for opposing Muir's noxious brand of racist politics.
The projection's reached the point where we just nod along, and say 'yep'.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because she never lied to us.
The nutters miss the Cold War on some level. It let them hide their paranoid bullshit behind patriotism. They're trying to pretend it's the same game, but their contempt for this country as it actually is, and for democracy in general has bled through.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because let the sound take you away.
There's a sort of grim amusement of watching Muir drag the Marxist infiltration of the world back another few decades. I await his declaring them the millenia-old Illuminati who meet under the Rock of Gibraltar and worship Satan soon.
Which, given QAnon, might just happen.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Dana Andrews said prunes gave him the runes.
The crab bucket analogy.
Used to oppose, in this case, things that will let the average citizen live a better, more healthy life, while supporting things that allow the wealthy few to benefit, and leave most living in precarious situations.
When your description of your opponents describes you better than them, part 5874.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Peter O'Toole is Lord Jim.
This like a child drawing a comic strip where they are friends with Superman and Batman.
Only the child is a man in his sixties, and the hero is actively reprehensible.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because La Bete Humaine.
It's always fun watching Muir turn on Trump administration figures when reality gets in the way of his paranoid fantasies, declaring them incompetent, disloyal servants of the Secret State.
Which is usually followed by unpersoning.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because a wandering minstrel I.
Of course, all of these crimes aren't... actually real, but Muir needs to retreat into a fantasy realm these days to avoid realizing how bad things are going.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because they wanted the highway; they're happier there.
The saddest thing is that Muir is essentially having his pretend wife who is essentially a female him, reaffirm that Muir is a fun and happy guy. And that is where this strip stumbles, because Muir doesn't realize that Sam doesn't strike most viewers as fun--she strikes them a cruel and obnoxious bully. And that's besides being a bigoted lunatic.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Jean Renoir.
Of course, the irony of this is Muir is an exceedingly negative figure, dominated by fear, hatred, and bigotry. What he imagines to be displays of positivity are crude mockery and exulting of getting away with being an asshole. In essence, Muir acts like an ass and then declares it shows a massive flaw in his opponents when they are offended.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the VVitch.
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There are so many complicated impulses in this awful strip that it's clear Muir didn't think about this enough on one level, and thought about too much on another.
It's the Day's Days of Days! Because pussy on the chainwax.
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I'm starting to wonder what generations Muir likes. My suspicion is none of them for not being racist enough. Though he'll pretend to like the Greatest Generation while ignoring how they loved FDR.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because see androids fighting Brad and Janet.
The projection remains... epic, just as the nude drawings remain tacky and creepy.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because come ride with me through the vales of history.
Meanwhile, in the real world, Trump has Covid, his doctor swears he's no longer contagious, and nobody is sure they believe him or not.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because a Salvation Army band played, and the children drank lemonade.
It says something that Muir has reached the point that he just spits out his talking points even as they contradict each other these days.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because I think I'll fall out, and try it again.
You know, having literally foreseen this pervy, awful monstrosity of a strip coming, and commented upon the creepiness of Muir's depiction of the twins'... *ahem* twins, it actually happen does not comfort me.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because With God's Help, Peace.
The projection here is epic beyond Muir's normal measure, because Muir is not only projecting Republican opportunism onto the Democrats, he's projecting his own ideological about-faces, which have had him swap from neo-con hawk to neo-isolationist, all with the idea of 'owning the libs' and explaining how they're the real racists.
And it has clearly been draining for him.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because did I thought of what I'd say?
Meanwhile, in the real world, Trump has Covid.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because flow, Morpheus, slow.
You know, I'm gonna bypass Muir regurgitating the Online Right's take on BLM, which involves ignoring the actual movement for one easier to argue with, and even the fact that Jan has now been in the same position for three strips in a row, to note this is the first sustained bit of "Even Liberal Jan'ing we've seen in a while, and honestly, Muir seems worse at it than ever. Part of it is he's out of practice, but another part is that Jan seems more like someone who flirted with a vague leftism once, before moving into fascism--a crossgender Latina Goebbels if you will.
And having placed that image in your head, I bid you adieu.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because it's the nighttime that flatters.
These days I honestly wonder how Jan qualifies as a liberal at all, as the hivemind has completely destroyed her as anything but another racist nutjob mouthpiece.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because gonna be some sweet sounds coming down on the nightshift.
Muir's ongoing move to full-blown Nazi continues apace.
It's the Days Day of Days! Because oblong.
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You know this strip speaks for itself, and what it says, despite what Muir imagines, is "Yes, I know that we're almost certainly going to lose this one, so I'm figuring out how to explain that away, and reaffirm my narrative of how great we are."
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Katie's been gone.
Okay, in between all that badly done humor, things have reached the point that I have to comment on Muir's drawing his thirteen year old girl characters with, to be blunt, eighteen year old boobs. Which would be somewhat creepy in any circumstances, but when coupled with the infantilizing dialogue they're given and Damon's creepydadfriend vibes, and well, it's shudderworthy.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! Oh, no, well, he's not seeing me. I'll get him later. DAAAAN!
Somehow, Muir releasing this mawkish strip today in light of present events just adds an extra-thick layer of irony.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because August Derleth.
Zed makes free with misogynistic dunks on male Democrats he doesn't like in front of his own daughter. Because of course he does.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Long Gone Geek.
...I don't know what's more disturbing, the fact that Zed's lesson is that those not of the body are pathetic and inferior and deserve death for their different opinions (which do not need to be seriously examined, for we know they are pathetic and inferior for they not of the body)...
Or the fact that he writes a thirteen year old with the dialogue of a nine year old.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because though nothing shows, someone knows.
Sometimes I wonder how Muir keeps all his crazy conspiracies straight in his head.
Then I remember that he really doesn't--he just ignores it when they contradict each other.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because a Sweet Century.
And remember, you know that Antifa and BLM are the same thing because Even Liberal Jan says there are and she's a liberal, and also, one of the foreign-based financial backers of a racist militia, and wait, wait, back up, forget that bit for now.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Enola Holmes.
What makes this fascinating is that we know that Muir realizes, on some level, that it's Trump who's losing, that it's Trump who's blowing his chances, that it's Trump who's an incapable fool. But he can't out and out admit that, so we get this play attempt at blithe, bluff confidence that is simultaneously actively deluded and a desperate put-on. He's not alone on this--his fellows on the Crazyass Right are making the same sort of comments about how Biden is toast, and how the Democrats are going to try and steal it, but obviously, they won't succeed, etc.
The projection is, as always, EPIC.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Devil came from Kansas.
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Watching Muir remember the ongoing plague at the oddest moments continues to be... well, a thing.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because perhaps the sun will never shine on my field of wheat.
I mean, I pretty much had Muir pegged as that creepy friend of your dad's who made weird comments about your pubescent sisters (or you if you were a girl)--the confirmation and the fact that he will naturally write his cast as the same is... well, expected, but still unpleasant.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because safe T step.
What's fascinating about this strip is the downright fractal self-own, from the ending where Muir more or less admits that he knows Trump is an idiot and a blowhard, to the overblown bullshit denunciation of Biden that starts it off, where Muir throws everything against the wall in hopes something lands and sticks. And then there are the little bits on the margins, like Pence in what was the role of Tillerson, and then Bolton before they were unpersoned. In one strip, Muir shows how much he is rattled.
And the answer is 'very, very rattled'.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because you might think they're dumb and lonely, but you're wrong, 'cause their love is strong.
The inanity of this series of strips sure is something.
What exactly is harder to pin down.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Bride of Dewer.
So, just keeping this pointless "gag" going eh? The gang blabbing about their ridiculous airplane runway, and their ridiculous private jet.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Solar Pons, Detective.
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Remember when this was an office comedy, and the cast was not running a racist militia in Texas that somehow had fighter jets while simultaneously acting like a bunch of good ol' boys 'n' girls? That was still awful, but it wasn't this brand of absolutely insane mind-breaking awful.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because in the year of the cat.
Remember when Jan's "liberalism" didn't involve acting like a racist cracker, while somehow supposedly being a Latina? Boy, I do.
But remember, folks, Biden is clearly addled and demented, and if he seems like he isn't, well then he's being doped, which just shows how much worse he is, and BLM is evil and uppity. Now, Supply-Side Jesus bless!
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because I buy the product but never use it.
Muir's ability to absorb fascist bullshit uncritically and spew it out in an even worse form all while imagining himself to be a free-thinking defender of liberty sure is... something.
Oh, and always fun to see the neoconfederate shit not realizing just who the 14th amendment was aimed at.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Jaffa cakes.
Hey, remember when Muir liked Ivanka? He just gets more and more Nazi each year, don't he?
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Company of Wolves.
And it's the first time he mentions Covid in weeks. For a lame joke as he tries to tell himself that it was clearly all a conspiracy, the people stating that Trump had broken the law.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because freedom is a word I rarely use without thinking, without thinking of the times, of the times when I've been loved.
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Muir's ongoing decline in skills is... well, something to observe.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Talking Casey.
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You know this is a fascinating illustration of how the hivemind seems to get dumber and more deluded the more members it gains, as each viewpoint annihilated reinforces the mad, stupid echo chamber.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because I huv no lips.
A rare bit of Damon performing his original function as the Black man who tells us what a good non-uppity Black man would think, while Jan performs her equivalent function of telling us that even Liberal Jan despises the evil BLM, something she likewise rarely does these days.
In two lifeless panels, because, well, it's Muir, and he has not improved as an artist in any way.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because parsnips.
Ignorance, arrogance, bigotry, and projection. The foundations of Muir's entire worldview. Here we see the old moth-eaten "The US is just like decadent Rome before its fall!" favored by people who don't know history, but like to imagine they do. We see Muir's deep-rooted belief that as a white man he has a magical virtue that must be respected. We see him ranting about immigrants, minorities and women, as usual. And of course, we see him explaining that the Democrats totally made Obama into an idol, which is not only untrue, but it ignores his own fawning treatment of Trump.
Because Muir's rubbed the 'crypto' right off the fascist by this point, and like all his ilk, he imagines his own impoverished understanding of human relations is the base norm, and if people are pretending to do something differently, they're lying. Oh, and also when they do it it's bad, because they're inferior, and not a natural ruler like him.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Harikiri.
Ah, yes, a lifeless strip of Muir repeating stupid arguments he's heard from someone else. Classic.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Into the Night.
As we get Muir going over several Pelosi stories together, days after they passed from the public interest, and with such a heavy Right bias as to render them close to unrecognizable, let's stop to say that Muir's new Trump drawing is ugly as fug.
I mean, just look at that. It's a kid's bad Fred Flintstone drawing, only blond.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Sword of Doom.
There's a lot going on in this strip, but it's all stuff we've seen before--Muir's fantasy Texas, Muir's simultaneously threatening and harmless antifa thugs, Muir's dumping on Skye--so instead I will note that Sam's devolving into abstract shapes over the last few strips is somewhat terrifying.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Limey, with Terence Stamp.
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So,was that a dream sequence, or... what? This is badly done even by Muir's standards.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Celebrator!
So, remember, all these protests are really just a small group of people roaming around and instigating things, and all real Muricans hate them, and they are the total opposite of good Right Wing movements, that do things like have people cross state lines to kill people in places they don't live, which is...
Anway--EVIL SOCIALISTS! THUGS! SOROS! SOROS!
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because vermouth and tonic.
As the Right's little pet movements tend to be heavily astroturfed and dominated by ringleaders, they thus assume their opponents' equivalents are even moreso.
Which results in bizarre nonsense like this.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Arcadia of My Youth.
As we look at this ugly, ugly strip, it's hard not to feel that Muir's intermittent attempts to connect his cast to opera is well, not unlike Hitler's own fondness for it--the attempt of a marginal figure to declare he is sophisticated and worthy, and a champion of civilization, because after all opera is cultured!
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Balthazar is a thirsty bitch.
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So, once again, Muir demonstrates he has no idea what is going on, and has constructed an alternate universe out of stupid and crazy.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because arathame.
Always good to see that the next generation of delusional wingnut is preceding apace in their paranoia and hate.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because it's comfort food, and I have needed comfort.
So, the reason this internet right rando's video shows up is because he entitled it 'the most important video of 2020.'
Also Muir appears to fail to realize that he and "Mr. Riot" are the ones acting like the state in 1984, creating a two minute video to scream at their designated enemy, but then misunderstanding Orwell's work is Muir's normal so...
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because don't ask me to cry for all the reasons you had to die.
So Muir's joining the latest widespread bullshit conspiracy theory to show what an individualist he is.
Of course.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Colonel Race.
Ahh, yes. Muir's firm belief that everywhere outside the bubble, you encounter anarchist filth who must be gunned down.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Temptations sing.
It says something that these days, Muir's slice of life strips are usually as awful and filled terrible politics as his political strips.
I've got a category called 'Small Mercies' for a reason, and this one ain't in it, likewise for a reason.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because John Cheever.
Remember, just yesterday where Muir was clearly trying to processing that he had a good chance of losing?
Well, forget it! He's going to! Muir's gonna be hailing victory, long and hard, and remember, in the real reality, the weak are falling before the Right's onslaught! And the gaslight is not flickering!
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because syllabub.
Now let's wait for him to declare the left Nazis again, after declaring himself opposed to the rule of law, for the rule of force, and of course, opposed by the wicked Jews and their vile leftist pawns.
Of course, my comfort in this is Muir will busy himself having his imaginary version of himself beat up imaginary idiot "leftists" so he can feel like he's a brave patriotic hero, instead of traitorous coward who doesn't even have the guts to commit actual violence.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because it doesn't matter what I do.
Oh, boy, it's Charlottesville all over again.
Hey, remember when Muir insisted that the guy who killed a woman there was the real victim.
Ahh, memories. Horrible, horrible memories.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Teddy Perkins.
Meanwhile, in the real world, the fairly optimistic Democratic convention stands in direct opposition to the doom-filled, whining Republican one.
But hey--Liberal Jan gets what's really happening in your pretend world.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because chocolate zucchini bread.
Muir handles a world he can't understand by his age-old method of creating hateful conspiracy theories.
And boy, are they getting worse with age.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Khartoum.
Muir's bizarre identification with apolitical egotist Elon Musk these days is just... one of those weird ways his mind has gone these days.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Death on the Nile.
Muir's ongoing collapse into naked fascism has seen him develop the pseudo-populist, anti-capitalist rhetoric of the movement, and not even realize it.
Also, the open anti-Semitism.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because omega-3.
Muir is talking about a policy that was rescinded.
Four years ago.
Moving the cast was a mistake.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because don't expect me to cry, don't expect me to lie, don't expect me to die for you.
And in this lifeless, badly-blocked strip, Muir reiterates he's so brave and tough, making a strip where his good guys effortlessly beat up brainless, pathetic versions of their opponents.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because we'll become silhouettes when our bodies finally go.
It's been kind of remarkable over the course of this year, watching this strip transform into something that at least engaged with the real world, albeit in a heavily distorted form, into one that is almost completely abstracted from it. It's worth pointing out that Muir has barely dealt with the Presidential race this year, the rare times he has being in an almost backhanded manner. As for Covid-19, the worse things have gotten the more determined he seems to be ignore it as much as possible.
And why not? This year has been Muir having reality show him that he is wrong about everything, a coward and a fool whose ideas fail when a real problem happens. And so he has done what he did the last time this happened--he's found a little hole to bury himself in and weep, while occasionally muttering that he's a brave boy he is, and if he could, yeah, he'd totally beat up all the baddies. Only its worse this time, because Muir's spent twelve years degenerating in every possible way.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because start dancing, and I'll blow your brains out.
You know, putting aside the incredible amount of things wrong with this strip--which is pretty much everything--the interesting element is that Muir's entire tone here isn't stuff you say to rally your side for the fight. It's stuff you say to prepare for bitching about how it wasn't fair when you lose.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Mokiki does the sloppy swish.
This one's interesting because Muir is, for once, falling into ideological incoherence, instead of his own personal incoherence. Fascism--and Muir's politics have tended that way for a long time, and only gotten moreso over this presidency--has long treated socialism and liberalism as simultaneously elitist plots out to destroy the people AND the dominion of evil rabble-rousers out to the unfortunate against their betters. It's part and parcel of fascism's tendency to pass itself off as a revolutionary ideology while being a deeply reactionary one. They are for the people--but not for them getting something when they're unfortunate. That's against the natural order.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because John Cassavettes.
Ahhh. Good to see Muir's remembered about the entire 'foreign embassy' thing. I thought he might have discarded that plotline.
I mean, it would have been better if he had, as it's nonsense that paints his characters in a very bad light, but then as he clearly doesn't see that, well, let the good times roll, and wait for that final vault into Sovereign Citizenship.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Roxy Rocket.
You know, the fascinating part of this noxious stew of paranoia is what it represents--Muir and his fellows have more or less given up on winning the election and are now into explaining the likely loss. Oh, they'll never admit it--and should Trump pull out a win, they'll insist they never doubted. But now it's about delegitimizing the Democratic Party as a potential government.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Frankie was a good girl, everybody knows.
Right. To make it clear, this woman has been arrested on charges of... ahem, robbery, domestic abuse, and obstruction of justice.
Clearly, the sinister arms of the Deep State stretch long.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because He Who Gets Slapped.
Muir's ongoing slide to a more and more naked fascism has always been joined by more projection onto the Democrats and more yelling about the GOP being weak sisters. It's just been reaching an actively bizarre level these days.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Phantom Carriage.
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You know, it says something that Muir imagines that treating Stacey Abrams as a mammy stereotype and whining about "anti-white racism" proves how terrible the Democrats are to African-Americans.
Still, it's interesting to see his portrayal of Pelosi switch from an ineffectual foil for Trump to the lovechild of Cruella Deville and Sauron.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Richard Gere in The Cotton Club.
Muir's projection in the face of manifest incompetence and malignancy from Trump and the GOP has reached the point of being an incoherent, contradictory mess in a single sentence.
We are through the looking glass, people
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Torment (1944).
The extent to which the Republican's Imaginary Biden is Actual Trump is... well, revelatory, I'd argue.
Much like ignoring the whole plague.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Saraband (2003).
On some level, Muir is conflicted about Skye. He has to show her as somewhat reformed, because he wants to fuck her, BUT he also needs a mouthpiece for his imaginary straw liberals.
I suspect this will eventually end with the addition of another cast member, but it might take some time to get there.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because After the Rehearsal (1984).
It's interesting to note that Muir has shifted from his previous indistinct feeling of anomie to avoid dealing with Covid-19 to the protests, which he now generally mischaracterizes as 'riots'. (A few have developed into them, of course, but Muir's treatment is so general that it's clear he has no idea about the specifics.) It's worth noting even now that Muir barely engages with the topics he claims to be discussing. He trades in vagaries and insults and calls it a day. It's hard not to trace this with the entire ordeal of the Trump Presidency--Muir expected triumph and has gotten muddle. Of course, Muir can fake enthusiasm like a champ--he was talking about how great Iraq was going in 2008, remember--but it's not as good as the real thing. Muir may declare that it was great that they lost that lemon tree as he downs a cup of turnip juice, but he was expecting lemonade, no matter what he claims now.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because From the Life of the Marionettes (1980).
As we continue to ignore the plague, and insist that the Silent Majority is with the racists, and that men are the true civilization bearing gender, let us consider the bizarre fixation that Muir has with this robot plot, which he seems to think shows Sam is awesome. Somehow.
Oh, and patented Sam howler monkey face in that last panel.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Faro Document 1979.
And once again Muir describes his opponents in terms that are mostly applicable to him.
Except for the Marxism, and frankly, Muir's version of anti-communism is pretty much a sort of Bizarro-variant of it.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Autumn Sonata (1978).
As usual, the cast will do anything to spite anyone who dares call them on their bullshit.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Serpent's Egg (1977).
The fascinating thing here is the projection--Muir is blatantly a coward living in a bubble that lets him live in his fantasy that he is a great tough warrior who would naturally dominate others.
And so he mocks the guts of black men who, whatever their unpleasant politics, marched at freaking Stone Mountain in Georgia.
Yeah, gazelles. Right.
