Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 08, 2024

“Go back to the US, eh?”

My best friend was Canadian. Even over 10 years ago when we were having a conversation, she was telling me how Canadians really don’t understand why things like marriage/racial/gender equality and what have you are even still issues in America, when all that stuff has been normalized up there for a long time.

Canada has a long history of receiving refugees from around the world…

There will be no hiding from an evil dictator! The world will pay for this

Wait a sec. Aren’t Canadians Norte Americanos also?

I’ve got my barrel ready to go over Niagara Falls in case Canada builds a wall.

With Trudeau and how Canada has treated Jordan Peterson, it’s certainly not a place where I would want to go.

Bloke from Australia said they were the lucky ones.

When asked why he replied :

“Britain sent the criminals to Australia, you Americans got the religious fanatics, looks like we got the best deal”

Unfortunately some Canadian politicians (conservatives) are emulating American’s republican politics.

That’s me in the blue T-shirt.

No one actually leaves. A lot say they will… but they never do

Remember, “The grass is always greener” sometimes not so much!

Eh? But from what me see in news it the other way around with illegals trying to sneaks into USA from Canada and that it is “at historically high levels”. It say that “more than 12,200 people was apprehended crossing illegally from Canada last year” . Some peoples is even asking questions in internet forums like “Which is the best border crossing to get into the USA from Canada illegally without getting caught?” . Just does a internet search and sees for yourself. So what is Rat trying to says here some sortsa population exchange is going to happens next?

American immigrants are the worst! They’re not smart enough to understand that they’re already in… or that they’re yelling to the wrong side of the border :D

I’ve been to Canada and it’s pretty nice there. Then again, that was years before all this border wall madness.

US now ranks 58th in freedom among world countries, a sharp decline over the past four years. >

According to Freedom House, a fully independent organization, Canada ranks No.5 in the world for freedom and democracy. The USA ranks No. 59, just below South Korea. Here is the link if you want to check:>

The irony is that Pastis likes to complain about censorship and cancel culture, both of which are more prevalent in Canada than here, due to the lack of a robust First Amendment culture. He wants to move to a country that would incarcerate him for some of the comics he produces.

OK I just realized links are not allowed in the comment section.

Who was that person here, who suggest Stephan does not enter into politics?:

Sigh… I remember a time when this strip weren’t so political… Can we please go back to that time?

And this is what it is coming to…

Correction: We are not nice. We are polite. There is a difference.

Canada is pretty messed up now.

Let’s hope there is no need to flee in November.

You know it’s bad when even Canada doesn’t want us.

Its great to be Canadian; I can vote “Right” without aligning myself with all those maniacal conspiracy theories.

Will Trudeau make trump pay for the wall?

Problems up there too.

When I traveled outside the US, I always sewed a Canadian flag to my pack, and if asked to ‘say something in Canadian’, I replied ‘’Eh?’.Never failed.

No more Canada for me after the last trip where they stripped apart all our luggage for no reason

Canada would prefer Mexicans, since at least they’ll work at something useful.

I left America for aThe Cayman Islands. I’m embarrassed to admit to anyone that I’m an American citizen. People are so kind to each other here.

I think back to the way Trudeau treated Canadians during Covid…. No thanks!

If things develope in to WW3 and there is a draft there will be the biggest wave of draft dodgers that Canada has ever seen!

Looks like Pastis has declared Trump the winner and all the little woke Leftist Dems are trying to flee the country. As least somebody has it right.

Beware Poilievre!

Canada is like an apartment above a meth lab.

I thought of doing this 24 years ago, but then I thought that once I crossed the border, that even though the Canadians are friendly, they would throw me back over :D

guessed it!

Those shirts they’re wearing are the colors of the Ukrainian flag

We Canadians ARE nice people, for the most part. It’s just that we have problems of our own, and don’t need the problems of others.

The Canadians have their own problems so let’s not add to them. Instead let’s try lifting where we stand.

When I lived near the the Canadian border in the 70’s, there was no border checkpoint. You could just drive right in and out.

What’s funny to me (ignoring the message of the strip) is that the ‘refugees’ are already through the fence, i.e., they’re alreay in Canada.

Within the past 24 hours:

Backlash against immigrants challenges Canada’s welcoming image

Canada launches sudden immigration crackdown amid public pressure: report

Justin Trudeau retreats from Canada’s liberal immigration regime

Still stirring the pot Step.

Gilead → Canada

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Congrats to republicans for turning the so-called “melting pot” of the United States into a place NOBODY wants to emigrate to for the foreseeable future

But my dad was born in Canada! I’m allowed!

If only…

Looks like I need to reevaluate whether reading “Pearls Before Swine” is good use of my time anymore…

Yep, sure, run to Canada and dictator Trudeau, where he censors opposing opinions under broad “hate speech” laws, freezes assets of protesters without a court order, unconstitutionally invoked the Emergencies Act, regulates online streaming services, and jails preachers. And, if you think their universal health care must be wonderful, you are mistaken; there is a severe shortage of family care doctors, so Canadians have great difficulty accessing a primary care doctor. The grass is not greener on the other side of our northern border.

Maybe it’s time to learn something about the many things that are Canada!

Canadians are nice!

My wife and I have frequently discussed applying for asylum.

If Kamala wins!

Canadians ARE sweethearts, but even they have a limit to their patience. And let’s be honest: America is that bratty child in the English-speaking family.

I live sixty miles from Canada.

WHY are my choices at my local A.T.M. “English” or “Espanol”?

Canada is setting stricter standards for immigration and refugee status. They want us to stay here and actually solve our problems.

Stephan, we’ll make an exception for you.

Tell them it’s never been about the issue itself, just how to work the issue to maintain or get power.

We won’t leave if Trump is reelected. We’re Americans. We don’t give up and walk away on our own country. Other people abandon their nation. We do not. Americans aren’t defeatists or passive fatalists, like many border crossers. We do not surrender our own nation to its fate, like it isn’t ours, like we’ve disowned it.

We attended a wedding at a lodge in northern Minnesota. It was about 100 yards south of the border which ran through the lake. Since it was winter & the lake was frozen over it was possible to just walk into Canada from there.

Those of us that approve of the election results, thank the people leaving for the extra space. Can we have your stuff?

As opposed to rabid political radicals. Of ANY persuasion. And some non radicals as well