It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Sweet and Dandy.
Muir knows he's a patriot because he's said he's a patriot, and he knows he loves the Constitution because he says he does. Thus actions are irrelevant, especially as Muir knows he is the good and the pure personified.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because "who made the mine owner?" say the black bells of Rhondda.
As we see yet another one of Muir's patented Jewish liberal Nazis, we also see what I'd argue is the source of Muir's fascism. Like every fascist, Muir insists it is tyranny to not let him do whatever he wants, and villainy to protect those he wants to be his victims. Because like every fascist, Muir thinks he is special, strong, and good, while being none of those things.
Also, Zed is apparently rooted in that chair now. Which... sure. Yep. Why not?
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Mr. Boston.
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You know he was chuckling to himself when he thought up that brain-dead, racist joke. You know it.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Haddaway.
Remember folks, to Muir, acts of terrorism committed by his guys either don't count, or were actually committed by someone else.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because below the salt.
It's always nice to have a confirmation that Muir doesn't know what communism actually is.
Or that he's a fascist.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Judy in Disguise (with glasses).
I'd say it's amazing Muir can spout this bullshit after January 6th, but then, he's never going to actually try anything, just write about a universe where his shit works, so, naturally, failure doesn't change his attitude.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because maybe you can show me how to love, maybe.
Won't lie, even as someone who's predicted Muir would do this, the speed with which Muir has turned on Trump for being insufficiently fascist is... well, a bit startling. It just goes to show you that in the end, for Muir there's only one thing he will not discard, and that's his swollen self-regard.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because now you know how happy I can be.
So in summary--Trump really won, the plague isn't real, and Biden is a Chinese stooge who doesn't respect the troops who are being used to destroy real democracy, which is to say, rule by angry white mobs.
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Fuck, the next few years gonna be nuts.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Patti Smith Group.
This is the immediate future of the strip. Muir not only muttering his fascistic, seditious talking points, but doing so in the whiniest way possible.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because John Fred and His Playboy Band.
Strips like this emphasize how, underneath his 'Manliest Man Who Ever Manned Up' persona, Muir is a catty bitch, and not even a clever catty bitch, but the kind of suburban mom who says mean things about the mother with a special needs kid, thinking it will score her some easy points.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Daytona.
As I try to deal with Muir referring to a much better strip than his own, stupidly, let's remember that Mitch's unwillingness to break the Constitution for Trump that is causing this snit. As good points go, it is simultaneously tiny--McConnel just wants to keep bending it in his favor indefinitely--and yet also all important. The GOP is a rotten party, but Muir loves the most rotted parts of it.
As we definitively turn the page on the Trump era of DbD, it's time to consider the near complete unmooring from reality that Muir underwent during it. This was not unexpected--Muir had spent the entirety of the Obama administration getting crazier. Assuming that he was going to just keep going was a safe bet. But the manner in which it unfolded, that was odd. It was obvious to me from the moment Trump won that Muir was going to have a hard time of it in his presidency--Muir's strip had shifted to a crabbed, unpleasant paranoia as the Obama years went on that made any triumphalism a tough fit, while Trump was manifestly going to be a shitstorm. The only shocking thing was the speed of it all--within a month of Trump's presidency, Muir was declaring Republicans traitors, and crafting elaborate nonsensical theories out of elaborate nonsensical theories he read online.
Trump era DbD was a strange beast, split between a swaggering, hollow triumphalism and a bathetic whinging fear. The cast regularly ping-ponged between besieged keepers of "civilization" and triumphant victors who had no need to fear the untermenschen. Muir shifted at last into an open fascism, while of course continuing to insist he was opposed to the Democrats who were Nazis. And now, we are all left to wonder where does he go from here. In some respects, it seems likely on the path he was doubtless planning to go in the past, with the compound facing a siege from its vile Islamocommunazi opponents. But Muir's gotten nuttier over the last four years, and the plots he imagines have followed suit.
Prepare for awfulness, folks.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the cause is democracy.
As should be clear by now, nothing was coming.
But then, it should have been clear when Muir wrote this. This is a man astonished that Amway didn't make him rich, that Dianetics didn't give psychic powers, that the Saucer Men didn't come. But worse, because Muir has been hoping for a coup to upend democracy, while declaring democracy a coup.
Let us see where the madness goes in the future.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Finders Keepers, Shut up.
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I'm going to move on from trying to get anything but vague impression of what this strip is supposed to say to note that this is the last one of these I will do with Trump as president. Huzzah.
Of course, this means I also expect things to get really crazy in the next few days.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because why must I cry.
I see Muir's still pissed about losing his Twitter account.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the snail.
Muir's gnosticism is on full display here alongside his misogyny, from the belief that Trump has only to "man up" to somehow stay in office to the reiteration that responsible government is rule by 'hysterical women'. As usual what comes through is the man's delusions and the brittleness of his toxic masculinity. Muir is a twelve-year old bully at heart, and like all of them, he is a fragile thing under all the ridiculous swagger.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because snow flurries.
It's only going to get worse, people.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Funky Kingstom.
I'll give Muir this--Trump's term did reveal a lot of human filth in this country. The problem of course is that what was revealed was the Muirs of this nation. Racists who scream that any attempt to force them not to act like white supremacists is racism. Fascists who claim that democracy is tyranny and authoritarianism is democracy. Scum who claim good men are criminals and an unrepentant sociopath is a righteous man.
And Muir's fairly far gone--where others of his ilk are calling the Capitol putschists 'antifa', Muir sees them as good folk and the storming as a good thing. While he hasn't gone full QAnon, he seems to think that Trump can do something now, when in fact all he can do legally is pack his bags and go. In essence, Mr. "I Revere the Constitution" doesn't understand what the Constitution says.
Surprise, surprise.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because sing it up, mister.
This is where the strip is now. Claiming that refusing to go through with an illegal coup makes you a traitor.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because October Country.
"I mean, we have the right to violently attack people when the vote doesn't go our way! We just do!"
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because A Study in Scarlet.
Remember how BLM was a bunch of vile uppity scum for protesting Blacks getting arbitrarily shot? And yet a confrontation that has killed one Capitol Policeman, wounded more and lead to plentiful arrests--that was just people being heard when they'd been ignored.
On the subject that they'd won an election that they'd lost, and wanted the government to illegally throw the results out.
This is where Muir is now.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because seemed like the real thing.
Let's see how long Muir is in 'What happened at the Capitol was a good thing, A GOOD THING!" mode.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Return of the Super Ape.
And remember, Muir's author avatar is saying this to a robot modeled after the T-1000, because of course he is, nothing in this crazy universe he's made makes any sense.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Jamaican rum.
The bizarre nonsense theory that a medal handed to Pence was some sort of bribe for his complicity in the sinister backstabbing of Trump encapsulates the crazy world that Muir and his fellow paranoids have chosen to live in, where their inability to understand things leads them to obvious nonsense. But then that's where Muir is now--screaming about the Constitution as he in fact is opposing what it says and proposing tyranny.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Jah Guide.
And Muir has embraced, for the moment, the ineffectual Capitol putschists as good honest vol--ur, folk.
He becomes ever more what he always was, at heart.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because let no man steal you thyme.
As awful as this all is, for me the comfort that by tomorrow Muir will be screaming about the latest "plan" to somehow make Trump still president failing makes it bearable.
But only just.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because she's green as any glass.
Muir's ability to convince himself that the people telling him the moonmen aren't reading his thoughts are the deluded ones is certainly a thing.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Leo the Lion.
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One wonders how much more fascist Muir is going to get in the days ahead. A great deal, I suspect.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because extra point is added.
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I don't know what is worse, Muir's ignorance of what communism involves, or his ever increasing fascism, complete with claims of being a true revolutionary movement.
Which doesn't bother with 'equality' of course, because some people are just inferior scum and deserve to be ruled over.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because A Thousand Clowns (1965).
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It's easy to be a paranoid when you don't understand how things work.
