Daily reminder not to travel to the US. Yes, this cartoon is satirical but its still a bad idea and do you really want to support them with your money?
Satirical but... not too far off from what is actually happening.
As someone in the US, agreed. Stay the fuck away from this fascist shithole.
Thanks. The fewer, the better.
I mean nobody in their right mind wants to go visit the US anyways.
It's in many ways a beautiful country and lots of fun to visit. I used to love going there for holidays and road trips. I wouldn't consider it now of course, but that saddens me. I want to go visit, just as soon as sanity and humanity prevails.
Might be a few generations. If ever.
Sucks it had to be like this, really wanted to visit my friends in Florida. They tried to convince me it'd be fine but damned if I'll support the US right now. Also I'm not rolling the dice on the gestapo.
You made the right choice.
What if we remove panels 2 and 3 and he just mishears her say terrorist instead of tourist
IT IS DONE.
god forbid terrorists go on vacation 🙄
Neither of those words have ever existed. In the interests of language simplification both have been replaced with "turrist". Please take care to review your Newspeak notifications citizen.
A normal day in the USA.
If I wasn't already here, I would not be in a rush to book reservations.
I have reservations about your reservations.
panel 3 is not only superfluous but completely hurts the flow and the humor
Do you remember the american youtuber who learned how US immigration works and tried to sue them?
I think this is supposed to be exaggerated humor, bit this is literally happening.
Canada has been doing this for years.
We have?
Or are you just trying to cope?
Someone who has gone through US customs please comment if this actually happened to you. I see way too many straw man cartoons, and I hate to see a Ben Garrison of the left.
The comic strip is satire, in response to USA border agents inspecting travelers' phones and social media when they try to enter the country. And there are in fact cases where foreign nationals were denied entry to the USA on account of their social media posts. Although it has not yet been reported that any foreign tourists have literally been deported to Libya, so yes that part of the comic strip is not literally true.
But then again, neither is Garfield.
I would argue Garfield is very literally true.
You don't seem like a sea lion, but this is well reported and easily available information.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-french-scientist-detained
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/world/europe/german-tourists-detained-deported.html
https://www.newsweek.com/australian-journalist-deported-us-alistair-kitchen-2086256
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqj4w91vz7jo
And a lot more, do your own homework next time.
I gotta find the link but a woman's American-born son was detained at the airport for 8 hours and asked about his loyalty to the US because he's asian looking and was heading to some middle-eastern country or some shit. So literal citizens are being stopped and questioned.
