It's the Day's Day of Days! Because then came the last days of May.
There's always a certain bleak amusement in Sam and Zed's rambling political discussions taking the tone of a pair of mirror image Marxists babbling of historical inevitables, the traditional mental state of their foes and how their supporters will put the bastards up against the wall.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because I'm on the lamb but I ain't no sheep.
Every internet controversy eventually makes it way to DbD, nine times out of ten in a strange, garbled form well after the matter is finished.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Transmaniacon MC.
These expressions of patriotism from a man who is trying to turn a county into a breakaway republic with foreign capital...
Well, they kind of underline the real Muir, don't they?
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Dalwhinnie.
Muir really thinks he brings to mind the Founding Fathers and the victims of Soviet oppression.
Instead of a bunch of whiny, racist rabid nationalists who were always declaring their terribly botched coup attempt a great moment.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Strathmill.
This really looks shockingly bad with the news coming out of Memphis. Which we know Muir is going to either discount or turn into more proof of how he is really the most persecuted one.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Lagg.
The worst part of Muir doing this is we are essentially getting the distorted version of someone else's distorted version of this decision, making figuring out what is happening here impossible to tell without research that feels like it probably wouldn't be worth it.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Glenkinchie.
It's always jarring when a moment like this happens. Especially when Muir has taken the awfulness to new depths in the preceding strips.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Balvenie.
I see the nonsense currency discussions are letting the cast show how much they value women.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Cragganmore.
A nudie debit card that will be linked the bullion-backed currency of an unrecognized secessionist state
By all rights this should end with Gunpowder County pumped and dumped by speculators while leaving the Feds to clean up the bankrupt, collapsing insurrection, but Muir doesn't get finance or government, so things will continue to run by magic.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Bunnahabhain.
It's kind of funny for Captain Mitty to say that's a bit much as he is involved in the unilateral secession of a single Texas county while living on his ranch protected by high-powered robots.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Kilchoman.
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Watching them get so excited about the Monopoly money the Republic of Hickistan is going to operate from is bleakly amusing. (And yes, I know that Muir plans on this having a hard currency backing, but given how that would run, in the real world, the nation's gold stores will likely be gobbled up by speculators who realize what a gull they're dealing with.)
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Royal Brackla.
So much thought about their bad cheesecake Monopoly money. If they weren't fictional, this county would be about to get squashed like a bug.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Daftmill.
About the only defense you can muster for this thing is that Muir is so wrapped up in his own brand of crazyawful to realize how morally repellent this is, before even getting to how wrong. And that is a weak defense--about as weak as Muir's attempt at an argument.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Finnieston.
The Republic of Redneckistan is going to be wiped out in viral surge while simultaneously practicing a sort of strange reverse eugenics, I see...
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Balblair.
It's shockingly easy to propose imaginary solutions to imaginary problems. Especially in an imaginary world.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Springbank.
Sometimes, it's hard not to think the end point of the American Right will be when they declare they have a sacred right to smash their heads open with crowbars and then we will have to spend the few years dragging them to casualty wards as they knock themselves into comas.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Macallan.
We start this one with something we've seen quite a lot of over the last few years--Muir begins with an assertion of how law works that is blatantly wrong, and on closer examination, clearly him echoing the Sovereign Citizen adjacent arguments he's read from someone else. The point of these arguments is always ultimately the same--that Muir and those who affiliated with him have a right to do what they want and if the law suggests otherwise, then there must be a higher law that supersedes it.
This is of course one of the essential beliefs of fascists, but as usual, Muir imagines that his calls of bloody execution of those opposed to him are proof that he's a Real Murican, and that his opponents are Nazis.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Glen Grant.
There's a bleak fascination in how often Muir returns to the 'Biden as puppet' theme. Some of it is doubtless that he's got the drawing, and so, damn it, he'll use it. But another part is very much Muir's preoccupation with the idea that he and his are the natural rulers of the nation and so whatever controls it that is not them is an insidious conspiracy. But, because again, fascist, this supposedly omnipotent conspiracy is stupid, cowardly and incompetent, a foe no true born Murican need fear. And so we get puppet Biden and the vague Council of Evil, who are invariably always convinced they are about to be overthrown. Because there are no characters in this strips. Just mirrors of Muir, even if some wear the masks of his enemies and Muir screams at them that they are hated.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Bowmore.
Does Muir realize that the idiot Brazilian putschists got arrested by soldiers that they cheered the arrival of because it never occurred to them that the military wasn't on their side? Probably not, his take on international politics is filtered through fash sources who insist that every evil plot is both going well and is a glorious example of the people's true will.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Auchentoshan.
Years of brain-dead contrarians have produced an American Right that doesn't understand how things work and salutes people who want things to work badly as heroes.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ardnahoe.
Sometimes Muir does a series of strips like this, where the point is clearly a vague desire to show how defiantly not-PC he is, so they wind up lacking any direction, or flow, or punchline.
In conclusion, bears with power tools. Boy, haven't said that in a while.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Glenturret.
This strip gets racist about the oddest things these days.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Abhainn Dearg.
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Imagine being this brittle and obsessed with purity. Muir is more like the leftists he imagines than any leftist.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Arran.
The most interesting part of this incoherent mess is that Arkhaven Comics is Teddy Beale's little project in the field that has gone about as well as all his attempts at making alt-right entertainment goes, badly. But then, Muir is certain it must be successful, because clearly, his brand of awful has to be popular.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Nc'nean.
You know, moving on from Muir's usual misogyny, the funny thing is that Muir seems to think this behavior is somehow remarkable in the de facto single party state he's created. But then, the "Gunpowder Republic" is less a realized setting and more a badly thought out wish-fulfillment scenario. It's both an eternally triumphant breakaway state embodying the real Murica, and just a county in imagined Texas. In both scenarios, it doesn't have to face the consequences of its actions, but in different ways.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Aultmore.
I don't know how Muir tracks his conspiracy these days, especially as those twenty true patriots he mentions just helped elect the man he insists is a deep space plant while the Democrats who he insists are the deep state incarnate all voted against him. Still, it will be fun to see him flail.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Speyside.
It's interesting watching Muir trying to awkwardly graft current events to this present lunatic storyline, as well as his lingering discomfort with including Putin among the good guys solely due to a long-existing Russophobia.
Doesn't make a very coherent strip, mind you, but an interesting one.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Tullibardine.
Once again, the point of Muir's present brand of white supremacism is that these sort of people are the natural lords of the US. Not despite this glaring stupidity, but because of it. They don't need to think when they bellyfeel!
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Aberlour.
This strip raises two interesting points. The first is that it's clear that the only objection the cast (and by extension Muir) has with Putin is he's Russian, the traditional enemy--otherwise, they consider his authoritarian dictatorship laudable. The second is that ongoing question of what exactly does Muir think is going on in Ukraine? He clearly believes something is going on, but what? Does he somehow imagine that all the massive reversals Putin's suffered are fake? I can believe that--Muir's view of reality is distinctly Gnostic these days, where the man boasts constantly that he is not fooled by these lying facts--but even so, he must believe something is happening in Ukraine. Is it a 'actually Putin is winning', or 'actually, Putin shall soon unleash his full strength', or does Muir keep it in a quantum state where his idea of the Russo-Ukrainian War is pure vibes?
I suppose we'll see.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Laphroig.
The most revealing part of all this is how Muir has everyone just nodding along at the plan to persecute churches and charitable organizations who aren't on board with the new regime. The man who keeps insisting his opponents are Nazis goes to the Third Reich's playbook, and likely doesn't realize it because he thinks fascism is anything that won't let him do whatever terrible thing he wants.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because don't you know me, I'm your native son.
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It's kind of impressively loopy that Muir imagines some dismal little rural border county could produce a functioning autarky. But then we've been in Galt's Gulch territory for a while.
