Tuesday, April 7, 2026

All America Needs Is A Magitech-Creating Whiz Kid!

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Daughter of Don Q.

I swear, this is like how in Atlas Shrugged, Galt's Gulch works because somehow, they've invented stuff that breaks Newton's First Law.
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  1. JLGApril 9, 2026 at 4:11 AM

    An obnoxious aspect of DBD that only gets more grating with time is how Muir is always putting this oblique, insider dialogue into real people’s mouths that they would absolutely never say, always with the same tone, making them all basically interchangeable. This holds whether it’s Musk or Bannon or Trump himself.

    Public figures having basically the same personality* is something Garry Trudeau could sometimes be guilty of, but at least he was writing actual satire grounded in empirical reality, as opposed to whatever it is Muir’s doing.

    Also, he almost always has Trump addressing his staff by their last names, which is just goofy.

    * Mallard Fillmore actually might be the worst offender in this regard, because unlike Muir, Tinsley’s awfulness isn’t even INTERESTING. He’s just an inch-deep hack.

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    1. John BallApril 9, 2026 at 1:16 PM

      Oh, God, yes. I was noting this in the previous entry--watching the meatheaded Whiskey Pete (or for that matter Trump) spouting Muir's pseudointellectual argle-blargle is deeply irritating. It's a demonstration of the depth of the man's self-delusion, him idolizing people he knows nothing of to use them as mouthpieces for subjects he knows nothing of.

      As you note, part of this is the inherent nature of the political strip, where that side has a cast of hundreds and most artists will fall back on their stock idea of a political operator. For someone like Trudeau, who generally has genuine insight, every now and then, things will get a bit flat. For a hack like Tinsley, what is already shallow becomes a sheet of paper. And with Muir, you get this endless blend of Dunning-Kruger effect drivel blending with active, actual paranoid delusion. (Interestingly, Trump is one of the only political figures who Muir has ever come close to speaking in something like his own voice. And even then, we get him delivering huge tracts of Muirspeak.)

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