It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraman Neos.
I was preparing to note how shallow Muir's bravado is, the empty posturing of a man who thinks making threats is a sign of courage, and then he just demonstrates it. After praising an internet rando, and saying, yeah, the wimpy Left is in real trouble, he flips out on Trump's losing his trial, and starts sputtering nonsense while imagining he's coming across as cool, collected, and badass.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraman Gaia.
The return of Muir's 'Biden is just a senile puppet' idee fixe is the last bit that was at least intelligible, before we veer off into one of those downright surreal bits of babble that you know made sense to Muir when he wrote them.
With nightmarish drawing to match.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraman Dyna.
This shows so much of Muir. His witless racism that he will stubbornly insist is not racism. His continued resentment of Obama and need to pretend that somehow, he doesn't count as a president. And most of all his ignorance of foreign politics, where events are filtered through the babble of other ignorant racists and fascists. Two men who have nothing in common politically are made into equivalents, based entirely on the fact that they are minorities in power in European countries with names Muir sees as funny and foreign to their nation, much like, well, Obama. I suspect if he'd written this a month from now, Rishi Sunak would be added to the list.
Rishi Sunak, woke leftist. It boggles the mind.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraman Tiga.
I mean, the joke of Bluto going into politics is that it's kind of terrifying...
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraman: the Ultimate Hero.
And we see Skye once again referring to her supposed Leftist beliefs in terms only a Right-winger would use, and once again insisting that Right-wingers are the true oppressed ones. If only they could get everything they wanted all the time. Then they wouldn't be.
Muir has a very broad definition of oppression for himself, and a very narrow definition for those not like him.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraman: Towards the Future.
Man, I know I said the bad guys only exist to be effortlessly defeated, but this one... it doesn't even work by the logic of the strip. The Evil Conspiracy is using immigrants, except it can't be bothered to actually do something with them, so the good guys can easily turn them into an obstacle for the Conspiracy. Because their opponents are strong yet weak, and immigrants aren't even sentient.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraman 80.
A reminder that Muir's baddies only exist to get so easily defeated that one wonders why they even bothered putting forth any effort at all.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Ultraman.
This strip is as pathetic as it is vile, a man showing his eagerness to believe any ridiculous bullshit that will let him indulge in his cowardly, vicious bigotry and paranoia. And he thinks this shows how smart and tough he is to boot.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraman Leo.
The racism and ableism all makes Muir's always vile message on immigrants worse this time.
And again, it doesn't need much help to be awful.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraman Taro.
You know, I find the story of how this strip blinked out of existence, and then blinked back more interesting than the strip itself, which is more of Muir's declaring that X is clearly the woke conspiracy at work, and proof of them at work, with a dash of racism. Muir's always been a bit of throwback, with these yearly fund drives in an era where multiple services exist that could handle this better. But now... it really seems he's running into problems. Let's see where it goes.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraman Ace.
The strip that was originally here is gone replaced by Muir explaining how he's putting the begging bowl on pause.
Man, he genuinely seems to be struggling with keeping things running at the moment. This is twice in short succession we've seen the strip update... oddly. This was no great lost, it was, as I originally noted, yesterday's cartoon, but longer and more blatantly racist. But still... there's something unnerving about watching it blip in and out of existence in real time.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Return of Ultraman (Ultraman Jack).
It's amazing how Muir can turn any random assortment of facts into proof that diversity and the Evil Conspiracy are always making things worse.
Okay, not amazing. Tiresome.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraseven.
As we get another heaping helping of big-brained sexism, I note that the begging bowl is out a bit early this year.
I'm not shocked.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraman.
And a demonstration of Muir's utter misogyny and his utter ignorance of what communism entails, at the same time.
Also, the extent to which the fictional relationships in this strip all now wave prominent red flags is... well, very much a thing.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because UltraQ.
My guess is that Muir's crazy Panel 1 Proclamation involves the Democrats voting to include non-citizen immigrants in the count for House Seats. Which is just how that works, and which discontinuing would not in fact advantage red states the way he imagines.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the leader of the Yokai.
As usual, Muir's libertarian shell hides a Nazi point... we need to purge the insidious parasites who are controlling our mighty volk.
It's so ironic he has the nominally Jewish character saying this.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because ooo-eee-ooo.
It's fascinating how Muir's impulsive decision to turn Russian Guyovitch into a Ukrainian has wound up making him so utterly loathsome. And how much Muir has wound up just like the WWII homegrown-fascists who kept insisting that they knew the real score and how if only we'd listened to them, we could have avoided shedding all that blood beating the Nazis.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Telegram Sam.
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Again, remember that they've been running a secessionist county for over a year now, which was presented as doing stuff just like this. But that was okay, because it was Redneckistan doing it to the dirty liberals, not the dirty liberals doing it to them.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Frank Sinatra.
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So not only does he not realize quite the extent to which he's flipped the cartoon's original meaning, he doesn't realize that he hasn't actually changed it enough, so that the drawing suggests the opposite of what he has the caption say.
That tracks.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Quest of the Avatar.
You know, as simple and awful as this strip is, there's a lot to unpack here, from Muir's obsessing with an imaginary problem, and his poo-pooing the hateful law that has been passed to counteract this again, imaginary problem as inefficient thanks to Democratic treachery through Medicaid. All of which means the only real answer is to secede, because committing treason is the only patriotic thing you can do, and of course it will work, because your opponents are weak and awful.
Hmm, let's see if I still have that on standby...
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because from the Land of Light.
You know, beneath the screaming about how the Republicans are all traitors because they don't burn everything down is an interesting admission. For all he tries to frame it as an "ain't she cute?" joke, it's clear on some level Muir recognizes that Sam's de facto fascist dictatorship over a single county is a bloodthirsty idiotic mess that wouldn't appeal to people, no matter how much he yelps that this is how things should be.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Pretzel Baconator.
Combining his 'youse da real racists' with an extra dose of racism AND his America Firster 'it's corrupt to support foreign nations facing invasion from fascists', with just a dose of anti-semitism.
He's so oblivious to his own awfulness it's painful.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Indoor Football League.
Because Muir's turning on Israel doesn't mean he supports protesting their actions. After all, that's being done by non-rednecks, and is thus evil.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because don't be shy.
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It's the bits like Muir imagining ethnic cleansing and a holiday for a failed coup attempt, and then vowing "Nuremberg 2.0" for the people who worked on the covid vaccine that get you. He's a Nazi. But he somehow thinks he's not, and that other people are.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because ride a white swan.
And once again, Muir asserts that everyone else is an enemy of the state in the service of foreign powers.
Which excuses his cast being exactly that at this point.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because keep on the sunny side, the sunny side.
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This is as much a highlight of Muir's utter pliability as his awfulness--this is the argument going on in those spaces, and Muir has swallowed it whole, because, well, that's what he is now.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because chili.
Muir thinks these are the good guys and that they're being witty. He really does.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Made in Muscle Shoals.
As we watch Muir once again declare that this time his crazy conspiracy theory pushed by online rumormongers will pan out, a reminder that Zed and company are literally traitors acting collusion with foreign nations.
But somehow, that doesn't count.
