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Harris was never the border czar.  WHAT?

Harris was never the border czar.  WHAT?

As part of the reinvention of Kamal Harris, it is said that she was never the “border czar” – implying that she had nothing to do with the chaos at the border.

First of all, that comes across as an admission that President Biden’s border policy is a disaster.  She wants no part of it.  Essentially, she is throwing her boss under the bus.  If the Biden/Harris border policy was a success, she would not be disassociating.

To wash her hands of all that crisis at the border, the Harris spin is that she could not be the “border czar” because there is no such official position on the White House organization chart.  (Memo to Harris promoters: The term is just an expression, not an office.  America does not have real czars.  Geez!)

What is true is that Harris was given the border issue as an assignment from Biden.  Not only was that fact reported widely in the newspapers for the past four years, but never until today did she or her people deny it.  If she was not put in charge of the border issue one might expect Harris to correct the tens of thousands – maybe hundreds of thousands — of inaccurate reports – especially those criticizing her mishandling of the border crisis.  But nooooo.

In the face of the absurdity of the effort to disassociate Harris from the Biden/Harris’ most disastrous domestic policy, the new spin is that .. okay, she was assigned to deal with the border, but only to give South and Central American nations taxpayer money to discourage their citizens from migrating north.  Well … she failed at that, too.  And apparently, she was not aware that a lot of those illegal border crossers come from other parts of the world – including China and the Middle East.  (It is probably a good thing Harris did not know that or we would have been sending them taxpayer money, too.)

In all fairness, we should point out that shortly after she was named “border czar,” Harris told potential migrants not to come to America.  That was it. The beginning and end of her efforts to secure the border.  And we know how effective that was.

When asked by Lester Holt in an interview why she had not been to the border (Holt apparently thought she was Biden’s border czar), she said that she had not been to Europe either – and then cackled.

Of course, this is only one example of the re-inventing of Kamala Harris. That is because the old and real Harris is unelectable.  In a sense, we are seeing a second switch-a-roo in this election season — Biden to the old Harris to the new Harris.

While the talk is about a new and more moderate Harris, it is merely a mask to disguise the old Harris.  She is still using Hamas propaganda to make Israel the villain.  She still supports the violent protestors who Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu correctly called “useful idiots.” 

On the wider screen, Harris is still peddling everything for everybody policies – universal healthcare, universal childcare, paid leave, minimum wage increases, late-term abortions, student debt forgiveness, supporting violent protests on the left, replacing police with social workers, men in women’s sports, tax increases, regulatory expansion and ever nutty and divisive woke policy.  

Harris is on record on all those issues.  The only question is whether Democrats will get away with yet another massive deception on the American people.  Harris is no more the moderate they now describe than Biden was the super senior they tried to pass off over the past year.

In terms of the philosophic continuum, Harris is the most radical left candidate ever put up by one of the two major parties – even surpassing Senator George McGovern in 1972.  We can only hope to have a similar result.

So, there ‘tis.

About The Author

Larry Horist

So, there ‘tis… The opinions, perspectives and analyses of businessman, conservative writer and political strategist Larry Horist. Larry has an extensive background in economics and public policy. For more than 40 years, he ran his own Chicago based consulting firm. His clients included such conservative icons as Steve Forbes and Milton Friedman. He has served as a consultant to the Nixon White House and travelled the country as a spokesman for President Reagan’s economic reforms. Larry professional emphasis has been on civil rights and education. He was consultant to both the Chicago and the Detroit boards of education, the Educational Choice Foundation, the Chicago Teachers Academy and the Chicago Academy for the Performing Arts. Larry has testified as an expert witness before numerous legislative bodies, including the U. S. Congress, and has lectured at colleges and universities, including Harvard, Northwestern and DePaul. He served as Executive Director of the City Club of Chicago, where he led a successful two-year campaign to save the historic Chicago Theatre from the wrecking ball. Larry has been a guest on hundreds of public affairs talk shows, and hosted his own program, “Chicago In Sight,” on WIND radio. An award-winning debater, his insightful and sometimes controversial commentaries have appeared on the editorial pages of newspapers across the nation. He is praised by audiences for his style, substance and sense of humor. Larry retired from his consulting business to devote his time to writing. His books include a humorous look at collecting, “The Acrapulators’ Guide”, and a more serious history of the Democratic Party’s role in de facto institutional racism, “Who Put Blacks in That PLACE? -- The Long Sad History of the Democratic Party’s Oppression of Black Americans ... to This Day”. Larry currently lives in Boca Raton, Florida.

40 Comments

  1. frank stetson

    Joe Gilbertson: I have another tome that will not post.

    THIS FREE SPEECH WILL NOT POST

    I can send it to you to prove IT WILL NOT POST.

    I am sure others are blocked as well. Don’t think it’s based on me being me

  2. Rick

    It seems like Harris’s skin is darker these days. Trump does the spay tan, so it’s only fair that ,mala gets a darker spay to go after the black vote. People are so easy to fool.

    • Tom

      Yeah, especially those that do not know how to spell the word SPRAY!!!! LOL

      Prove your words on Harris please!!!

      • Rick

        Well I’ll be. Thanks for correcting my spelling there Tom. You democrats have a death wish for the USA. There is a photo of Harris on the front page of our news paper, and she is a few shades darker than other photos I’ve seen of her. She was speaking to black women in Houston, TX. Democrats change their spots depending on who they are talking to. If they are speaking to people in GA, they suddenly get a southern accent. They are liars through and through. Our country needs a divorce. We need to split it up as the conservative states of America, and the liberal lunatic states of America. But, if you go to a liberal state, you cannot change your mind when it all falls apart and want to go where things are being run with common sense, which liberals do not have. I don’t know why, but somehow they are born without it.

        • Tom

          I am an Independent / Unaffiliated voter. My philosophy is if you are going to throw shade on someone, at least be correct in your spelling, of third grade words, otherwise you are showing ignorance which translates to lack of credibility. Yours was not a typo because you used the word more than once with the same spelling. Also, show statistics or solid journalistic evidence like in the case of Michael Jackson when he was slowly becoming lighter due to a skin health condition – which happened to make him and his music favorable to Whites as well.

          My Independent opinion on your pictures is this: If you check your computer, you can make your own pictures “lighter or darker”. The control is called “contrast”. Another is called “Hue”. Photo-shopping is a common technique in publishing!! Just because your different pictures show changes does not mean its because Harris did something or is playing up to a particular race. This thought shows racism in you! It could have been the photographer, or an editor, or the publisher who used the picture. It could also have been the lighting props or frequency of the lighting being used. Please broaden your thinking past MAGA!!

          My Independent opinion on: Your ideological rant on splitting up the country was already tried. It was called the Civil War up North, and the “War Between the States. In the South it was called The War of Northern Aggression. The South’s effort failed due to a guy named Abe Lincoln from the liberal state of Illinois, and his liberal thoughts that people should all be free and the constitution should apply equally to all. I suppose you could say the North ( liberals) won because they were the side promoting freedom ( a worthy cause for which I was in the U.S. military) like Harris is doing. The conservatives (like you and the South) lost because your side was promoting discrimination, racial disparity, slavery which is lack of control over your body, mind, and presence, and old traditional ways of White Supremacy, et. al. like Trump, Vance, and Project 2025 are doing. So good luck being on the loser side again buddy!!! See you at the finish line!!!

          • Rick

            Believe it or not smart guy, I do know how to spell spray. I was in a hurry and should have read it before posting. Also, I am not racist at all. Not even a little. History is written by the winners of a war. I don’t think we know the whole truth about that conflict. What about the blacks in Africa that enslaved their own people and sold them. Slavery is all over the world and it is not just black people that are made slaves. Liberalism is a sickness of the mind, where no common sense is found. If you are right, and the left wins this time, the USA is finished. It is close to finished now. Yeah, it was probably the news press ink was mixed on the dark side. I only pointed it out to show the fakeness of the left and how they cater to who they are dealing with at the time. No politicians are good, but the left is so obviously in your face communist.

  3. Tom

    This article gets a Stop The Spin (STS) rating of STS-5. Its another RIGHT WING bologna word sandwich. Here is why:

    1) Larry is correct, she was given the border issues to solve. By the word “issues” Biden meant “root cause issues” that were driving people to come to the USA border. Department of Homeland Security has always been in charge of “immediate border issues”. Biden has always been in charge of immigration policy and border policy. Harris’s job was to work with the governments, determine root causes in each country, and design corrective strategies to mitigate the flow. What most people do not realize is that people leaving countries in mass also harms the country of origin as well. It damages their economy as well as shortening the labor supply. Juan Valdez has lost many coffee bean pickers as a result – thus coffee prices have increased.

    2) The article does not point out the phone app that was created to pre-process immigrants. The concept was good. It was working. The app was of poor design. Point is, Larry for some reason did not mention this – probably just a memory issue.

    3) Larry says the old Harris is unelectible. Maybe so, I really do not know. Larry seems to condemn her re-inventing herself to suit the new position. Trump has been told by his inner circle to do the same thing because he needs to focus on undecided and swing voters. Trump has admitted on televised rallies to being told to do this. Most of his recommended changes have been to language being used and presentation. For some reason, Larry criticizes Harris’s successful reinvention as evidenced by $200M raised in a week, over 170K new voter registrations, and over 100K new volunteers, but avoids mentioning Trump’s failed reinvention as evidenced by chaos, people leaving the party, and JD’s inability to add a single new voter to the roles.

    4) Nobody but nobody knows better how to disguise his intentions like Trump, period! Can you remember the lie about not knowing anything about Project 2025 or its creaters – until the pictures and endorsements came known!!! Talking about “switch-a-roo’s, lets talk about Trump’s Tik Tok switch-a-roo when his buddy who owns much of Tik Tok called him and mentioned he will lose millions if Trump bans Tik Tok!!! Trump immediately did a switch-a-roo that may affect national security (according to old Trump) but Larry does not mention this!!!

    5) I heard Harris’s position on Israel-Hamas War. She acknowledged that Hamas started it. She acknowledged the right of Israel to defend itself. She acknowledged that Hamas cannot be governing in the future and that there is a need for stronger Palestinian Government presence and a two state solution. Netanyahu has never been in favor of a two state solution. His extreme Zionist thinking will kill lots of people in order not to have a two state solution – and this is the rub. Harris wants to stop the killing and bring about a manageable security and peace to the area in order to remove it from the Iran win column. Larry failed to point out the extremist rhetoric and nature of Netanyahu which the world is viewing as commingled with US policy and support. NOTE: Personally, Hamas brutally killed 1200 Israelis for no reason on Oct 7, 2023. They get whatever they deserve and whatever Israel throws at them. My feeling is that if you are going to pick a fight, make damn sure you can win it without crying for help – which is what Hamas is now doing.

    6) Harris did not use, and I have never heard her use the term “late term abortions” which we all know are less than 1% of abortions. Most abortions are chemical in the first few weeks. What she mentioned was “women’s rights to control what happens to their own bodies” – which is a far cry from Larry’s abortionist lie. By the way, you can see in this article how strongly Larry supports Israel despite the fact that Isreal is the second easiest country to get an abortion in of all countries!!!! Why not hit Bibi with this Larry!!!!?????

    This is directly from Israel’s government website – AND LARRY SUPPORTS THIS!!!! SEE BELOW:

    You can apply for an abortion in any of the following cases:

    you’re under 18 or over 40. If you’re under 18, you don’t need your parents consent
    the pregnancy is a result of unlawful sexual intercourse, for example, rape or incest (as defined by criminal law)
    the pregnancy could endanger your life or cause you physical or psychological harm
    you’re not married or you got pregnant outside of marriage
    the fetus may have a physical or mental defect

    If you don’t meet any of these conditions you won’t be permitted to terminate the prgnancy.

    You can fInd out more in the Information for young women with unplanned pregnancies brochure (Heb).

    You can read more at *https://www.gov.il/en/service/pregnancy-termination-permission* if you want to see how liberal Israel is on abortion!!!

    ISRAEL ALIGNS WITH HARRIS ON ABORTION – AND LARRY DOES NOT SEEM TO MIND!!!! HYPOCRIT!!!!

    7) Much of what Larry is against about what Harris is proposing are policies that build and help middle and lower class citizens – why are you against this Larry??? Shouldn’t we all be healthy and not spreading disease? Don’t we want children cared for? Don’t we want decent wages for our fellow Americans? Don’t we want paid leave so moms and dads can take care of their new born for a short while???

    As a class room teacher of ten years, I can tell you what happens when parents do not have health care. Children do not have health care then either. And they bring all of their diseases into the classroom and spread them to the children Larry promotes – the wealthier kids who’s parents do have health care. They all get sick!!!!

    8) Harris is NOT the most liberal candidate – but she may be close. Hard for me to say because I have not seen the evidence either way. But I do know that Larry is promoting MAGA extremism in the form of Trump and his cult – so maybe they will see your Trump and raise you a Harris!!!!

    So, there ’tis – all that Larry would not tell you!!! Now you can know both sides and decide fairly!!!

  4. Andrew Gutterman

    Larry,

    Now we know for sure you are a card carrying Republican, since Harris was NEVER named as “Border Czar”. That position doesn’t even exist on the government jobs list. It’s a term invented by the Republicans, then applied to Harris. The real story is simple:

    ” In early 2021, she was tasked with addressing the “root causes” of migration from the so-called Northern Triangle of Central America—Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. At no point in her tenure as Vice-President has she been in charge of managing the border.”

    So, there ‘tis.

    • Tom

      AG, you are correct! Thank you for reminding us of this!

      Many Democrats pointed out that Harris never held such a job. The title didn’t even exist. In response, after Stefanik drafted the resolution, she and her Republican colleagues edited it, saying that Harris “came to be known colloquially as the Biden administration’s ‘border czar.’

      More to the point though, Czars in the non-Romanov sense have been around in some sense for a century or more, but the idea of a “czar” in charge of a specific policy issue really took off in the FDR administration during World War II, with a transportation czar, a shipping czar, even a synthetic-rubber czar. In this sense, the title Czar means one who is responsible for and executing policy on a specific issue. And in this sense, the term is not fully applicable to Harris because Biden was the authority responsible for immigration policy. Harris was simply executing it. So she may have been at best a “half czar”.

      More recently, Bill Bennett was named the first drug czar by President George H. W. Bush. Obama had more czars than Moscow, including a climate czar, a green-jobs czar, and a car czar. (Alan Bersin was his border czar.)

      Flash back to 2016, and Donald Trump is busy announcing czars. He added two yesterday: activist investor Carl Icahn as an adviser on deregulation, and economist Peter Navarro as a trade-policy czar. Neither will go through Senate confirmation. Icahn will reportedly not be a federal employee, which will keep all of his communications privileged. Financial vetting has been extremely slow for the cabinet choices; Icahn won’t need to jump those hoops. Every concern expressed about Obama’s czars hold for these appointees as well. Read more about czars at *https://cis.org/Krikorian/Oped-Course-Harris-Was-Border-Czar* and get informed about the political term Czar. LOL

  5. frank stetson

    I segmented my restricted article and part one did not post: here is part two:

    In this article, Horist parrots and exaggerates the rapid right’s House of cards which just passed a feckless and symbolic resolution condemning Harris for her immigration actions but not daring, as Horist dares, to posit her at “IMMIGRATION CZAR.” Tis true. Horist dares more dangerous branding that even his own House. Even these do-nothings “formally” designate her in the bill as “came to be known colloquially as the Biden administration’s border czar” because they know to directly call her that, and say Biden did it, is not true and can be proven so. Then, the useless, no-action, symbolic bill tells many obvious mistruths, some repeated here. “Colloquially” means Republicans have been startled about reactions to their racism, sexism, in their Harris taunts that have polled no-so-well with Indy’s and others. I mean when you have to put out racism warnings, sexism warnings, to your own people and then formally step back on calling her the Biden Immigration Czar or the BIZ, —– I think, folks, you are announcing that you looked in the mirror and did not like what you saw in the public’s response image. Horist does not see that light as he goes full bore into the misplaced branding of Harris as Immigration Czar. He is 100% wrong.

    First, immigration, the border, are indeed in crisis. Trump has seen to that by precluding the right from any bipartisan actions, compromises, or any sort of progress in immigration or the border. Biden has now gone around Trump and now the border crisis is much better as in returning recent numbers lower than when Trump left office, and still going down. Saying it’s higher is living in the past. Hopefully, soon, Horist and folks spewing this narrative will be the mouse that roared. Meanwhile, most of Horist’s tome is conjecture, opinion, and conclusions not based in evidence or sources not provided.

    BUT — early on Biden did task Harris with the task of working immigration at the source countries to which, at the time, I penned: “Bwhaaaaaat —- remember General Akbar: “it’s a trap,” as in a set up where Harris had to fail. Recently, I read a New Yorker piece that confirmed and explained that. Baggage. Apparently, Joe had done a trip to do this under Biden and remembered it fondly as being successful. With that memory, baggage, and not listening to Harris, he tasked Harris who begrudgingly took the assignment. She was specific, even correcting Joe when, once, he told the black caucus Harris would do an excellent job on immigration, she corrected him saying her task was root causes, specifically in the Northern Triangle countries. Even that was a set-up, unintentional perhaps, but a set-up no less. FYI – this is when I wondered whether Joe selected her for the job to torture her over her primary debate attack upon him. Honestly, I think it was a mistake of remembrance and baggage. But a mistake no less critical than HOW he pulled from Afghanistan. Both, IMO, being the right thing done the wrong way.

    Why, a mistake? First, root cause diagnosis and cure take a long time. The border was in a crisis that needed massive tactical actions with bipartisan support that a root cause fix would not cure overnight. The third country in the triangle had just tossed its legal expertise, so shaky so that’s where she went because it was the lesser of evils. Two of the three countries were in political disarray where no progress could be made, so why bother. Here, at the third choice she issued her famous “DO NOT COME,” which is a sound bite for a longer statement that made more sense. IE – she got set up by Joe and then used by the media. Destined to lose, but not the immigration czar that Horist defines. And still on her watch, she could have refused the task as impossible. But it was early. And she learned.
    Another program for root cause cure was the opening of field offices in foreign lands to process asylum papers. I hope they have other tasks chartered because this is the stupidest idea I have ever hear. Liberalism run amuck. Think about it: asylum is often asked for to avoid being killed. So, you open an office in the killer country for people to come and apply while the killers take pictures and wait outside to kill them? Yeah, I gots to get me some more of that….. Hopefully the offices do others things too.

    But the bottom line is Harris was never tasked as Immigration Czar, she was tasked with determining fixes of the root cause for the Northern Triangle countries, an impossible task that was a failure. Horist is wrong, the House already stepped back to “colloquially known as,” because the brand will not stick and they, not Horist, know it. As part of the Biden administration and its policies though, she owns the border crisis at that level, but ===== as of today —– that’s a “crisis, what crisis” situation. Still need many immigration policy and process reforms, but that’s up to Republicans starting with their own bill to make E-Verify the law of the land. So, get to work, get it done, and quit the useless name calling supported by bogus facts and old ideas.

    • Tom

      Agreement from the Indy!!

      Horist has always been a bit blind (kind of like the cartoon Ole Magoo) about racism. He always falls back on his imaginary black friends that do not post, and his raising of a black child which I think was great – the assumption is that this child still likes him.

      Horist often lives in the past. Nothing new here! It is a known fact that the older we get the more we revert to our past because the past is deeper in memory – thus more accessible to recall.

      I think our memories and recent news are about the same on Harris and her border assignment. But as I stated in my post, GOP was the first to use the term Czar. Harris never liked that term. Interesting account of Harris being used and Joe keeping his enemies closer like Obama advocated!

      Yes, as an accomplished Quality Management Systems Manager and ISO Lead Assessor I can tell you that root cause can be hard to get to and even harder to fix quickly! Often band aids are needed until root cause can become effective.

      Interesting view on asylum papers and offices in other countries. I guess the assumption was that the home country/government would not mind them leaving – since Trump called them all criminals anyways. Your point is well taken in that such offices can be an accidental exposure to harsh treatment of the one wishing to leave, and their family wishing to stay. Thanks for that thought!

      Personally, since the GOP at the behest of Trump voted down the Border Bill, and because this immigration issue is older than prehistoric whale shit and transcends both parties, this Indy views both as owing the crisis, and both should work together on it. Truth is both parties agree on the fact of “its a crisis”. So this is a common shared opinion. They should listen to Kennedy and find ways of working together when they both agree on an shared opinion. This is relational low hanging fruit, a real opportunity for improvement! Problem is the mindsets of both wanting to use it as an issue when the other party is in power. Who will be brave enough to end it???? Surely not Horist! He is still in yesterday with the Czars!

      And there ’tis!!!

      I look forward to reading your other half article. Thanks!

  6. frank stetson

    OK JOE— so part two posted, part one is blocked. I will try part one below, again, this time taking out all the Trump’s.

    IF you see it, that’s what it was. IF NOT, then it’s blocked and I don’t know why and your blind belief that you don’t block is proven wrong. You are currently NOT a free speech extremist.

    • Joe Gilbertson

      nothing has been blocked, unless part one was in russian, I get lots of those.

      • Tom

        I have noticed that when I put too many or certain website references in my responses that I am blocked too. So I remove the http, and other system stuff and just leave the web name and number of the article. Seems to work.

      • frank stetson

        Tom: no links in my attempted post. Took out all the “trumps,” no help.

        Joe: you seem the most uninquisitive engineer I have met. Plus, if you think it should not be blocked, then your system is broken and you seem to only want to get defensive.

        Joe, what would my motive be to waste my time, and yours, in making this up. I have the passage, 7 paragraphs, under 500 words, nothing inflammatory. You can see all the “part two” stuff, it made it just fine.

        Happens every once in awhile, the system accepts the post, no display about any issues, but then the most does not display, just gone. Generally, it’s been one paragraph, but no standout reasons for it.

        More than willing to let it go, have done that so far, just thought YOU might be interested in the breakage. Especially since you think your system is working to advance your notion of free speech extremism. Just don’t reply and it is done.

  7. Darren

    So Tom, you always stated you are an Independ.
    So as an Independent you are all in favor of Kamala for President?
    I do not remember any Primary that gave you a right to post your opinion
    about her one way or another?
    Welcome to the Democrats way of governance!
    YOU WILL ACCEPT YOUR NEW CANDIDATE!
    Period!
    And to think 3 weeks ago Biden was all the rage!

    • Tom

      Yes, I am an Independent / Unaffiliated voter. I do not like either party. I vote based on concepts and which candidate has the best concept that will do the most good for the most people. I often split my ticket. Some concepts are bad, and both candidates have these. So in the end, an Independent like myself has to do a balancing act on which candidate he or she feels will best execute the office for the people. If I were dictator for a day like Trump wants to be, I would establish in law three parties: Dem, GOP, Indy, and a fourth choice for “no confidence”. They would all be government funded, no contributions allowed. And all other parties such as Green Party, Libertarians, Constitution Party and Natural Law Party.could be in the election primaries and debates as well with the goal being on an equal footing and to inform the people as much as possible.

      As far as my “right to post my opinion”, since when did you take away or anyone take away my freedom to post my opinion which I thought was freedom of speech?? Seems like your MAGA view is to take away my rights. This is also what Trump wants to do! Have another swig of KoolAide!!! I will post my opinion whenever I wish, and as a U.S. Veteran I believe I actually worked for that right. You always have the right not to read and respond because I also fought for that right as well.

      Biden was never a rage either way with me. You, as a long time reader, know full well I was in the “double hater” category that wanted both men to retire and be replaced by younger qualified candidates!

      We will all accept the results of the election. Some like me will do it peacefully. Others will end up in court and jail I suppose. Our great USA will go on either way!

  8. Darren Boyajian

    So how do the MAGA people want to take YOUR rights away?
    And what rights are you referring to?
    And in the position you say you refer yourself to be, Biden has done
    everything in his power to destroy what Veterans have helped to
    build, as Trump supports your very foundation?

    • Tom

      1) Darren’s response inherently advocates my right to my opinion and free speech of it is not valid. Its that simple. And he is MAGA. Ask women about the rights that MAGA wants to take away, or read Project 2025.

      Trump did not do as much for the VA as you think. Again, you are believing some lies mixed with some truths that he did some things. He did get the blue water agent orange bill passed but failed miserably on burn pits.

      But you have your facts very wrong, quit the KoolAide!!! Here is the truth:

      President Donald Trump claimed to receive a 2016 award from military veterans that didn’t exist and falsely denigrated the record of the late Republican Sen. John McCain on veterans affairs, whose widow endorsed Democratic rival Joe Biden for president.

      A look at some of Trump’s claims Wednesday:

      TRUMP: “I was honored to receive the endorsement of the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association in 2016, and they gave me a beautiful award. And I have it very proudly on a wall of great importance to me.” — White House ceremony honoring veterans of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.

      THE FACTS: There is no official award.

      Trump did get an endorsement from the association in 2016, the first ever from the group of Florida-based veterans who fought in the United States’ failed attempt to overthrow the Cuban government in 1961. But no award came with it.
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      In a news release this month — four years after the fact and after Trump repeatedly claimed he received an award — Juan López de la Cruz, president of the association, sought to recast the endorsement as a “recognition award” from the group in 2016. The group endorsed Trump for a second term.

      TRUMP: “I hardly know Cindy McCain … Joe Biden was John McCain’s lapdog. So many BAD decisions on Endless Wars & the V.A., which I brought from a horror show to HIGH APPROVAL.” — tweet.

      THE FACTS: Trump is ignoring accomplishments at the Department of Veterans Affairs that began during the Obama-Biden administration, which included McCain’s singular successes on behalf of fellow veterans.

      McCain was a leading force in the Senate behind the law that gave veterans an option to go outside the VA’s health care system and get private care at public expense under certain conditions. President Barack Obama signed the VA Choice legislation into law. Ignoring that reality, Trump persistently claims that he brought Choice into law when no one else could.
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      Trump signed a law in 2018 that expanded the options for using the Choice program established by Obama and McCain and other lawmakers.

      The 2018 law is named after three lawmakers who were veterans of war. All now are dead. They are Rep. Samuel R. Johnson, R-Texas; Sen. Daniel K. Akaka, D-Hawaii; and McCain, R-Ariz.

      Trump frequently points to VA accomplishments such as improved wait times and the offering of same-day mental health services. But those same-day services at VA were started during the Obama administration. Major veterans’ organizations in fact urged Trump when he became president to reappoint Obama’s VA secretary, Bob McDonald, so he could continue the VA gains. Trump ultimately settled on one of McDonald’s deputies, David Shulkin, to be VA secretary.

      A 2019 study by the Journal of the American Medical Association later found improved wait times at VA from 2014 to 2017, a period largely covering the Obama administration, with VA patient satisfaction also on the rise.

      While the VA has shown good ratings during the Trump administration, Trump’s claim of deserving all credit for turning the VA from a “horror show” to “HIGH APPROVAL” is sorely misplaced.

      WE VETS KNOW THE TRUTH ON TRUMP AND HIS CLAIMS!!!!

  9. Darren

    Thank you Tom for you response.
    So how do the MAGA people want to take YOUR rights away?
    And what rights are you referring to?
    And in the position you say you refer yourself to be in, Biden has done
    everything in his power to destroy what Veterans have helped to
    build, as Trump supports your very foundation?

    • Tom

      Please read Project 2025 before asking me this question. Or you can read Trump’s “Agenda 45” because its the same things with slightly different words. You have a responsibility as an American citizen to educate yourself.

  10. Tom

    Larry,
    My compliments to your cartoonist. I thought this one was particularly rich! When I look at political cartoons I do not look for accuracy because they are often not accurate. They do make me laugh. Thanks Larry ole son!!!

    • Tom

      And by the way, I thought it was mean for MAGA to take her wheels away – You know how she likes to sing about wheels!!!

  11. Mike f

    Larry, Long time away from your bullshit, but you are still spouting it as we knew you would. The question I have for you (and everyone else who fusses about the border)-what law do you think the Biden administration failed to enforce? The correct answer is “none”. Yes, trump issued some illegal executive orders that did slow people coming north to the border, but the only legal thing trump did relating to the border was due to Covid, when limits could be instituted. Biden had to rescind those after the pandemic ceased to be an issue. Of course, during the Biden administration republicans said they would not pass the budget unless something was done about the border. A bipartisan bill was developed, with approval of border control officials. Naturally the baby you support For President didn’t want to see any progress on this issue and convinced R’s to vote against any solution to the problem. Subsequent to that, an executive order was issued by Biden that resulted in the border, but I have my doubts as to the legality of this order.

    • Tom

      Excellent points Mike f!!! Welcome back! Frank, me, AC, Andrew, and J.S. Bruder have been trying to keep Larry in line and cut through his lies, spin, and BS! I look forward to reading your posts!

  12. AC

    Harris being called a Czar was the media’s invention. Say what you will on PBP regarding the VP but Czar does not compute. Your ample knowledge in the study known as World History should give a clue that the rank of Czar or Czarina is representative of a King or an Emperor. Ms Harris VP had nor does she currently have authority near that of a Czar.
    Your man of the hour Mr Trump, he believes he is deserving of and in the natural lime of succession to become Czar, ruler over the. States of America. He possess all the personal character types required for the Czar in residence at the White House.
    Larry may come up with page after page filled with allegations against Harris as a legitimate candidate running for President. But his material is not fresh and new. It’s his old tired rants written for Biden’s benefit and held as fodder meant for his usual punching bag, Pres Biden.
    When Biden tapped Ms Harris media types went in a flustered flurry. Mr Horist among them did his magic and merely struck a line through the name Biden and penciled in Harris and he was good to go. After all, whatever Biden was liable for the same Larry pinned on Harris. Skewed logic pushed beyond believability became Horist’s invented reality with no resemblance to the actual truth.
    Still, no objective commentary on Trump and why an Independent would prefer him and not Harris as out next President. Inquiring minds want to know..
    Horist in incapable of thinking objectively. So steeped in his conservative biases is he that objective truth and its facts are inconceivable although the true facts are not hidden but are there in plain sight.
    Blinded by the light! The truth is there yet not recognized as scales of bias cover his eyes.

    • larry Horist

      Ac… I am not sure if you are merely ignorant … senile … or a devout propagandist spinning the truth. We all know where the title “czar” originates. AND we all (except folks like you) know that it is a term of art used often to suggest who is in charge. It has been used by presidential administrations as long as I can recall. Obama had a number of White House “czars”. Your claim that Harris was not the border czar in the political meaning of the word — because she is not a Russian male monarch — is stupid. For more than three years, Harris has been referred to generally and in the media as the “border czar.” And until now, no one ever claimed otherwise. I do not see you protesting those who call Trump a “king.” It is a term of art. You are another lesson in hypocrisy … and another example of the left wanting people to NOT see what is there. Your last sentence has some truth to it — and describes you perfectly.

      • Mike f

        Ah, you are reading the responses to your tome Larry. However, you neglected to address what laws the Biden administration chose to ignore regarding the border? As mentioned above there are none. Nor did you mention the legislation that conservatives in congress were able to get democrats to agree to, only to have the orange turd tell the ‘R’s’ not to vote for it when it came time to pass it. As per usual you have no reason to fault Harris or democrats on border issues-Kamala attempted to address the underlying issues-the orange turd sunk the border legislation..

  13. frank stetson

    Joe, I tried the first paragraph of the first part, no go.

    Here’s the rest.

    Meanwhile, Kamala, the name not pronounced correctly by “the man who would be King” , unites Democrats overnight. Old and young, a rainbow coalition of woke and unwoke, rich and poor, even Old White Dudes who are meeting virtually, today, by the tens of thousands. Over 200 million raised in week one.
    “the man who would be King” is old, oldest candidate ever, too old to run. Kamala is young, she’s got an iPhone and knows how to use it. She not only uses social media like the thumb talking “the man who would be King” , but she also meme’s. virtual town halls and meetings, and she even knows how to drive a car. “the man who would be King” probably cannot even drive his own car. Her husband is seen with her often, “the man who would be King” ’s trophy wife hides, does not want to be seen with him and, most certainly, won’t let her son get close to him in politics. And while “they” make fun of her Indian mother, “the man who would be King” has a communist party member living in his cabana, yeah, that close to all those top secret documents…..
    She is a prosecutor; he is the most prosecuted President in history. She has never been impeached; he is the most impeached President ever. Her record is clean, he has felonies, judgements, held liable, all sorts of criminal acts. Even his business has numerous felonies. She has allegations against her. They say she is DEI, token, and slept her way to the top. I am sorry, but he is silver spoon, criminal, and sleeps around all the time —- he is adjudicated, she is alleged.
    It’s a tale of two cities: hope and change versus darkness and destruction. One wants to build, the other cut. Cut government, cut taxes, cut programs, cut support. She has a plan; he has the Project with date.
    As I have been saying, it’s going to be a hot summer, already is and we have a long way to go.

  14. frank stetson

    SO, JOE, there it is.

    One paragraph does not go. Now we try, by sentence: 1

    “the man who would be King” pivots to unity in his acceptance speech and the mood lasts for about 20 minutes.

  15. frank stetson

    second sentence will not post joe,

    here’s the rest of the paragraph.

    Who is he fighting? Given we have a depressed, suicidal 20-yeal old, I doubt “the man who would be King” means “fight for mental health…….” We get the drift: unite, fight, unite, fight.

  16. frank stetson

    Joe, one sentence, 20 words —- blocked in a half dozen tries.

    Not Russian or rushing for that matter.

    • larry Horist

      Frank Stetson …. When you comment on my commentaries, I get an email of your complete submissions …as does Joe. The office then uploads them. I have yet to see anything you wrote be censored. You actually have more on PBP than I do — or any of the other PBP writers. Nothing gets “blocked.” So, what are you grousing about all the time? If you are having technical problems … maybe it is on you end. Cut the whining. Oh … I forgot. You can’t. It is your constant.

  17. paul

    Her job was the boarder czar but she failed or decided the job was beneath her, either way she did not de her job.

    • larry Horist

      Paul … I am not sure if Frank just does not get it or prefers to misrepresent the facts. Biden named Harris has his agent for the border issues. The common term of art for such assignment is to call them a “czar.” We have had many of them under many presidents. For almost four years Harris have been referred to in the media and in interviews as the “border czar” — even when she was criticized for failing in her assignment. She finally went to the border– billed as the border czar — and never said she was not. Until lately, she nor anyone in the Biden administration as objected to that title. Suddenly … Harris had nothing to do with the border …. never was the border czar. That is just bullcrap … part of the reinvention of Harris across the spectrum. But you can understand why she is running away for a very failed Biden/Harris issue.

  18. frank stetson

    Paul, there is no “boarder czar” job in the Biden or Trump administration for that matter. She was formally tasked with root cause in the Northern Triangle, and still failed in that, but she was never tasked either as boarder czar or immigration czar. As I noted: “In this article, Horist parrots and exaggerates the rapid right’s House of cards which just passed a feckless and symbolic resolution condemning Harris for her immigration actions but not daring, as Horist dares, to posit her at “IMMIGRATION CZAR.” Tis true. Horist dares more dangerous branding that even his own House. Even these do-nothings “formally” designate her in the bill as “came to be known colloquially as the Biden administration’s border czar” because they know to directly call her that, and say Biden did it, is not true and can be proven so.” The bill exists, the wording is there, that’s how the Republican House views the issue, you should modify as they did.

  19. frank stetson

    And for the JOE test for the sentence that would be blocked, I will attempt to print it, deleting two or three words to see if the offending one can be determined…….next entry will be what remains.

  20. frank stetson

    As he is tragically shot, understandably …. he fist pumps yelling “fight, fight, fight.”

  21. frank stetson

    Somewhere in the 12 words deleted in the ……. is the words that Joe censors. And he does not even know he’s doing it.

    BUSTED

    • larry Horist

      Frank Stetson … OMG more whining.