A left-leaning CNN data guru says in a report posted below that the race is close, but that the momentum appears to be in favor of the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz Democratic ticket. That was prior to an event hosted on X by its centi-billionaire owner, Elon Musk who bought Twitter and later rebranded it as X. Musk says he laughs at accusations of being a conservative, because he counts himself as a moderate Democrat who previously supported Obama-Biden (D) and Biden-Harris (D) among others. The Musk and deposed President Donald J. Trump ‘conversation’ is posted as part of another report provided to MHProNews below. One headline this morning (8.13.2024) indicates that “conversation” between Musk and Trump has achieved a billion views, and MHProNews hereby will report on the matter. According to Professor Peter St. Onge: “OVERDUE: Nearly 40% of Us Can’t Pay Our Bills” including housing and other cost-of-living expenses. That report is in Part III.

A left-leaning Democracy Now! video on Harris is also provided in Part VI of this report with analysis. Part IV and V has reporting on pushback to British and European Union officials’ efforts that have been dubbed as ‘U.S. election interference.’

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Recently, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) found 53% of Americans believe that the First Amendment goes too far in protecting rights. 40% now “trust” the government to censor speech.

George Washington University law professor and constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, a self-proclaimed Democrat, calls “the most dangerous movement in our history,” Americans more and more are starting to believe in radical censorship of speech. Turley addresses the “global anti-free speech movement” in his book, “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.” The left-leaning Washington Post referred to Turley as a “liberal Democrat who voted for Clinton in 1992 and Ralph Nader in 1996.” “It is in my view the most dangerous movement in our history due to an unprecedented alliance of government, corporate, academic, and media forces.

Heavy stated:

Turley said at the time, “I don’t know where the idea came from that I am some kind of a right-wing extremist. I have always been a liberal Democrat and I voted for Bill Clinton.”That fear was amplified this week with polling showing that years of attacking free speech as harmful has begun to change the views of citizens,” Turley recently said.

He explained Antifa has been one of the “most dangerous” censorship groups.

“Antifa continues to attack those with opposing views and anti-free speech allies continue to ‘deplatform’ speakers on campuses and public forums. ‘Your speech is violence’ is now a common mantra heard around the country. Faculty continue to lead students in attacking pro-life and other demonstrators.” Turley cited an Antifa activist whose ideology is: “You have the right to speak but you also have the right to be shut up.”

MHProNews editorial notes. For roughly a dozen years, MHProNews has been led by political independents. As a further disclosure, there were times when this writer was more Democratic leaning on a given topic, more Republican leaning on others, or more minor party and political independent in orientation before that last 12 years.  It should also be noted that we monitor messaging from Democrats, Republicans and the Democrat-turned independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Nicole Shanahan ticket. The left-leaning New York Times said:

Nicole Shanahan, a lawyer who was married to Sergey Brin, a Google founder…”

Shanahan is wealthy. Per left-leaning Wikipedia: “Shanahan married Google co-founder Sergey Brin in 2018; they separated in 2021 and divorced in 2023. She reportedly has a net worth over $1 billion, primarily as a result of her marriage to Brin.”

So, the top three candidate tickets for 2024, per the most recent polling, all have billionaire backing and/or have a billionaire on their ticket. Following the money is useful in understanding the respective agendas.

MHProNews monitors communications from all three of those campaigns, and at times, each of them has arguably used manipulative, deceptive, or misleading language. They may each say something that is true, and then mix it in with something that is misleading or manipulative.  Paltering and other forms of manipulation are common realities. Details matter. There are no perfect candidates.

Thus, their respective track records and backers’ agendas are important.

With that backdrop, let’s dive into the latest political and economic developments as these will likely be factors in the outcome of the 2024 election and thus the regulatory and legal landscape that all Americans will operate in starting Inauguration Day 2025, scheduled for January 20, 2025.

Part I: CNN Video provided by the WND News Center to MHProNews is the following.

WATCH: ‘Clear momentum’: Network data guru says Kamala’s polling bump causing Trump to go ‘bananas’

‘Harris is doing two things here. No. 1, she’s getting more of those untraditional voters and No. 2, she’s coalescing that Democratic base’

CNN data reporter Harry Enten claimed Monday that “clear momentum” for Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential race due to “coalescing the base” of the Democratic Party, was causing former President Donald Trump to go “bananas.”

Harris received the endorsement of President Joe Biden after he ended his reelection bid July 21, rapidly securing the Democratic nomination shortly afterwards. Enten said that support from Democrats and “untraditional voters” were fueling the vice president’s surge in polls of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin voters released by The New York Times Saturday.

“What am I seeing? These were these New York Times/Siena College polls that came out over the weekend and look, this is Democrat versus Trump margin. This is May, Biden versus Trump. You see plenty of red on this side of your screen, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, of course, that quote, unquote, blue wall. This was back in May. You saw Trump up by three, Trump up by one in Wisconsin, Biden up by a single point in Michigan,” Enten told “CNN News Central” host Kate Bolduan. “The trend line here is what’s so important. So, let’s jump ahead from May to August. We go from some red on this side of the screen, look at all this blue on this side of the screen, Pennsylvania, Harris by four; Wisconsin, Harris by four; Michigan, Harris by four. You’re seeing those comments on Trump on social media kind of going bananas and you’re wondering why it’s because he’s looking at polling data like this, which shows clear momentum from Donald Trump to Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s got out of the race.”

WATCH:

Harris leads former President Donald Trump by 0.5% in a national head-to-head matchup, according to the Real Clear Polling average of polls from July 22 to Aug. 7, with the vice president increasing her lead to 0.8% when Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein and independent presidential candidates Cornel West and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are included in surveys. By comparison, Trump held a 3.1% lead over Biden in a national head-to-head matchup before the president ended his reelection bid, according to the RealClearPolling average of polls, with the lead expanding to 4.2% when Stein, Kennedy and West were included in surveys.

“I’ll note still, no clear leader up here, but you would much rather be Kamala Harris up by four within the margin of error than Joe Biden down by three in Pennsylvania, down one in Wisconsin and only up by one in Michigan, within the margin-of-error,” Enten continued. “These are three-to-five-point movements towards the Democratic ticket. Clear momentum and it’s clearly angering Donald Trump.”

Enten cited two figures from the New York Times poll, which surveyed 1,973 voters across the three states from Aug. 5 to 9, that were behind the surge for Harris.

“It’s not that she’s getting Donald Trump voters from 2020. What is she doing? Number one, she’s coalescing the Democratic base,” Enten said. “So look… Biden this spring, he was getting only 90% of the voters who voted for him back in 2020. Look at it now, what do we see? We see Kamala Harris getting 93% of those voters. So we see that momentum.”

“The other thing that we see, is those untraditional voters, those voters versus all this talk that Donald Trump was going to get these voters off the sidelines and getting a vote for who didn’t vote in 2020. Back in the spring, look at that, Joe Biden was only getting 28% of the 2020 non-voters, look over, Kamala Harris is now getting 43% of those voters, a 15 point jump,” Enten continued. “So Kamala Harris is doing two things here. Number one, she’s getting more of those untraditional voters and number two, she’s coalescing that Democratic base.” ##

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Part II – Election Interference charged: first item from the WND News Center to MHProNews is the following.

a)

Brit gets scorched for threatening to enforce his speech bans WORLDWIDE!

‘You British f***s lost the war!! We AmeriCANS speak freely!! We are sovereign!! We are FREE’

The dispute is over the recent comment from a police commissioner in the United Kingdom, Mark Rowley, who issued the threat.

“We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield, we will come after you.”

He envisions even extraditing people from other nations to face his courtroom antics on issues such as what has happened in the U.K.

Turley explained, “The decline of free speech in the United Kingdom has long been a concern for free speech advocates. A man was convicted for sending a tweet while drunk referring to dead soldiers. Another was arrested for an anti-police t-shirt. Another was arrested for calling the Irish boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend a ‘leprechaun.’ Yet another was arrested for singing ‘Kung Fu Fighting.’ A teenager was arrested for protesting outside of a Scientology center with a sign calling the religion a ‘cult.'”

Turley reported the issue surfaced because, “London has been hit with days of violent protests over immigration policies, including attacks and arson directed at immigration centers. This violence has been fueled by false reports spread online about the person responsible for an attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event that left three girls dead and others wounded. Despite false claims about his being an asylum seeker, the culprit was an 18-year-old British citizen born to Rwandan parents.”

Now police there are “moving to arrest those who are repeating false claims or engaging in inflammatory speech,” he reported.

Rowley expanded his comment: “Being a keyboard warrior does not make you safe from the law. You can be guilty of offenses of incitement, of stirring up racial hatred, there are numerous terrorist offenses regarding the publishing of material. All of those offenses are in play if people are provoking hatred and violence on the streets, and we will come after those individuals just as we will physically confront on the streets the thugs and the yobs who are taking — who are causing the problems for communities.”

Turley noted, “The message is chilling because free speech has been in a free fall in the United Kingdom as well as other Western countries.”

He noted the U.K. has adopted many laws criminalizing speech, using vague terms that allow for police to arrest anyone they want. All the behavior has to be is considered by police to be “threatening, abusive, or insulting.”

He pointed out, “Ordinarily, one would expect the U.S. government to push back on the suggestion that these laws could be used to arrest and extradite its citizens for the use of free speech. However, the Biden-Harris administration has been a proponent of censorship and blacklisting for years. At the same time, leading Democrats have called for European-type laws to be adopted or enforced against U.S. citizens for their views on social media.”

He noted that in the past, “Democratic leaders like Hillary Clinton called on foreign countries to use or pass censorship laws to prevent Elon Musk from restoring free speech protections on Twitter. The effort of these politicians would allow free speech to be reduced to the lowest common denominator as countries export their anti-free speech laws. When Clinton called upon Europeans to censor Americans, this is precisely what such actions would look like. These foreign countries could force Americans to curtail their speech under the threat of ruinous financial penalties or even arrest.”

A report at BizPacReview pointed out the insults actually being hurled at Rowley over his agenda.

Unleashed were many comments, many of them using harsh language, to scold Rowley.

“He’s not going to do a f****** thing about other people expressing themselves freely in other countries, especially Americans,” said one, describing Rowley and his agenda as “the rest of the racists.”

Another pointed out that “you British f***s lost the war!! We AmeriCANS speak freely!! We are sovereign!! We are FREE!!”

Yet another scolded, “Thanks to our revolution, we have free speech, and remember we started that revolution over a tax on tea…”

Another offered a lesson in American government, specifically the 2nd Amendment, if Rowley would “try to do something to us…” ##

b) Still Election Interference Related, from the Contrarian Financial-News Focused ZeroHedge. Note the use of the F-word below are quotes from that piece and Musk.

But, just hours before the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, and former president Donald Trump are set to ‘break the internet’ with a live-stream on X Spaces, EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton has thrown a temper tantrum, seemingly mad at Musk’s unwillingness to bend the knee at his censorious demands by daring to allow ‘orange-man-bad-literally-hitler’ speak on the only uncensored platform that remains.

Specifically, Breton wrote “I am compelled to remind you of the due diligence obligations set out in the Digital Services Act (DSA),” adding that:

“This notably means ensuring… that all proportionate and effective mitigation measures are put in place regarding the amplification of harmful content in connection with relevant events, including live streaming, which, if unaddressed, might increase the risk profile of X and generate detrimental effects on civic discourse and public security.”

The DSA is a NATO censorship law that is designed to stop the spread of populist parties in the West, according to cyber security expert Mike Benz.

Why is the EU threatening Elon Musk and X to censor tonight’s live event with Trump?

Why does the EU feel comfortable demanding censorship in a US election to comply with the Digital Services Act (DSA)?

What even is the DSA?

Watch Mike Benz explain ⬇️pic.twitter.com/RFWn1wNFIS

— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) August 12, 2024

Breton went on to threaten to use the full “toolbox” of measures to protect EU citizens from “serious harm.”

“My services and I will be extremely vigilant to any evidence that points to breaches of the DSA and will not hesitate to use the full use of our toolbox, including by adopting interim measures, if it be warranted to protect EU citizens from serious harm,” he said.

“With great audience comes greater responsibility,” Breton wrote on X, Monday.

“As there is a risk of amplification of potentially harmful content in [the EU] in connection with events with major audience around the world, I sent this letter to Elon Musk,” Breton added.

In response to Breton’s letter, Musk simply posted “Bonjour!”

In a subsequent post, he added:

“To be honest, I really wanted to respond with this Tropic Thunder meme, but I would NEVER do something so rude & irresponsible!”

And so with that, it seems Musk is refusing to follow Breton’s orders and daring to amplify the voice of one of the two candidates for the US presidential election in November. Notably, the letters US do not equal EU…

 “As the relevant content is accessible to EU users and being amplified also in our jurisdiction, we cannot exclude potential spillovers in the EU,” Breton wrote.

“Therefore, we are monitoring the potential risks in the EU associated with the dissemination of content that may incite violence, hate and racism in conjunction with major political – or societal – events around the world, including debates and interviews in the context of elections.”

The EU accused X in July of violating the DSA, stating that Musk’s verification policy on the platform can be used to deceive other users, CBS News reported. Musk removed verification badges, otherwise known as the blue check, from all verified accounts of people deemed noteworthy and currently charges $8 for anyone to receive a blue check.

“This is an unprecedented attempt to stretch a law intended to apply in Europe to political activities in the U.S.,” X CEO Linda Yaccarino said in response to the letter on the platform.

“It also patronizes European citizens, suggesting they are incapable of listening to a conversation and drawing their own conclusions.”

Breton thus created a round of media coverage suggesting that the prestigious European Union has identified Trump as a purveyor of hate speech and disinformation. And yet the interview has not yet occurred, Breton presents no evidence that Trump will be a source of disinformation or hate speech, and there is no evidence of any link whatsoever between Trump and the recent riots in Britain.

As such, Public’s Michael Shellenberger point out Breton’s letter could constitute a form of foreign interference in the upcoming US presidential elections.

Breton is, without justification, using the recent riots in Britain to demand censorship in the U.S.

In a normal time, the White House should issue a formal protest to the EU over Breton’s threats, and the Department of Justice should open an investigation. However, given that the Biden Administration is unlikely to do that, Congress should consider its own investigation.

Oh, and there’s this fucking douchenozzle from WaPo…

This so-called reporter from the Washington Post just had the audacity to ask Karine Jean-Pierre if the Biden regime could INTERFERE and block Trump’s interview with Elon Musk on .

Are you freaking kidding me?! pic.twitter.com/BF0E7IsX15

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 12, 2024

As LibertyNation’s Sarah Cowgill concludes, a potential 193 million folks – a mix of elite media and curiosity seekers – could tune in to the X platform to watch the titans make a plan for America, talk smack about Harris and Walz, or compare golf scores – or whatever it is they end up talking about. It could be eye-opening and meaningful, or maybe this interview will be a nothing burger. Either way, the billionaires playing America-Monopoly with real money will at least be entertaining. …”

More from ZeroHedge further below.

Part III From the Daily Signal to MHProNews.

Analysis

OVERDUE: Nearly 40% of Us Can’t Pay Our Bills

Daily Signal Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Peter St. Onge is a visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation.

A new poll finds that nearly 40% of Americans worry about paying the bills “most or all of the time”—which is even higher than during the 2008 financial crisis.

The poll—from CNN, of all places—found that 39% of Americans worry about paying the bills most or all of the time.

It’s up by one-third since the worst days of Bidenflation, and higher than the 37% during the 2008 crisis, when joblessness was running nearly 10%.

The reason, of course, is inflation.

Even CNN admits “consumers are still trying to catch up to the price spikes of the last few years.”

Still trying to catch up is an understatement. The gap between nominal wages and inflation-adjusted wages since 2021 is more than 20%. So, it looks like you’re making a lot more, but even accounting for official inflation, workers have lost thousands in income.

Of course, if official inflation is a lie, which seems likely, going by real-world prices from housing to restaurants and groceries, then workers have lost a lot more.

To illustrate, official inflation since COVID-19 is 21%, but fast-food menu prices—a standard finance proxy for true inflation—are up more than twice that, while housing costs have doubled since COVID-19, between rising house prices and rising mortgage rates.

If those real-world numbers are closer to true inflation, then workers have lost potentially thousands per month.

How are we above 2008 levels of distress when unemployment is under 5%? Easy: The inflation itself is pushing people to take on part-time jobs, and government statistics count part-time jobs the same as full-time jobs.

So, if you get laid off and take on a couple gigs—bag groceries Monday and Tuesday, sweep driveways Wednesday and Thursday, drive for Uber on the weekends—you are a one-man job miracle.

Indeed, CNN’s poll found that 35% of Americans—more than 1 in 3—say they have to take on part-time work to make ends meet.

That rises to 44% of blacks, 52% of Latinos, and nearly half of workers under age 45.

That explains why jobs are rising on paper, yet the actual number of employed Americans is plunging—down 600,000 in the past eight months alone.

It also explains why Americans are spending like double-digit unemployment is already here. The poll found more than two-thirds of Americans are cutting back on groceries, and nearly half are cutting back on driving to save gas. And 4 in 10 Americans are now using credit cards to pay for their necessities, like groceries and gas.

As always, this is hitting the youngest hardest, with nearly 80% of millennials and Gen Z unable to afford everyday expenses.

So, what’s next? I mentioned last week that most Americans think a recession has already begun, even as official numbers on prices and jobs gaslight their way to November.

A lot is riding on the next election. If the media manage to haul Kamala Harris over the finish line, we get Bidenomics double-time, all the way down. If, on the other hand, Donald Trump pulls through, going by 2016, we could get out of recession a lot faster, with a lot less pain.

We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal.##

Part IV From the WND News Center to MHProNews

a)

‘We’re in massive trouble with Kamala’: Elon Musk and Trump sound alarm on America’s existence

‘We’re at a fork in the road in the destiny of civilization and I think we need to take the right path, and I think you’re the right path’

“It’s almost not livable there,” the former president noted. “She was involved in the destruction of San Francisco and California and she’ll be involved in the destruction of America if elected.”

“We have a defective government, these are defective people, and they shouldn’t be running it.”

“He’s incompetent and she’s incompetent,” Trump said of Joe Biden and Harris. “I think she’s more incompetent than he is, and that’s saying something because he’s not too good.”

Run for the border

Both Musk and Trump spent a large portion of the two-hour event focusing on the problems the Biden-Harris administration has caused at the border.

“Crime all over the world is down, and wait till you see the numbers we have,” Trump said, noting leaders across the globe are sending their worst citizens to America.

“This is migrant crime,” and the former commander in chief said he was considering changing his catchphrase of “Biden Migrant Crime” to “Kamala Migrant Crime.”

“These are rough people. These are criminals that make our criminals look like nice people.”

Trump said Kamala is “such a liar because she was called the border czar and she never even went there.”

“People can’t allow them to get away with their disinformation campaign … She was totally in charge. [Biden] didn’t even know what was going on. He wouldn’t know the difference.”

Musk explained that he himself had visited the U.S. southern border and said: “It looks like a ‘World War Z’ zombie apocalypse at times.”

“I saw for myself in Texas. It’s real. I’m seeing this in real time,” he said, wondering to himself, “Is this made up or real?”

“The people that I saw did not look friendly.”

“This is a fundamentally existential issue for the United States,” Musk continued. “I’m not sure we have a country at that point.”

As far as where the migrants are coming from, Musk said: “It’s earth, the rest of earth. It would only take a few percent of the rest of earth to overwhelm the U.S. … It’s just not possible for there United States to absorb everyone from earth.”

Trump promised: “We’re gonna have the largest deportation in history, otherwise we’re not gonna have a country.”

The REAL warming problem

“The biggest threat is not global warming,” said Trump. “The biggest threat is nuclear warming.”

“This is no longer army tanks shooting at each other. It’s a level of destruction and power that nobody’s ever seen before.”

“We have to not allow anything to happen with stupid people like Biden. … Biden had a low I.Q. 30 years ago, but he might not even have an I.Q. at all right now. there’s nothing on the board that goes that low.”

“We have an administration that made [the possibility of nuclear war] more prevalent. The words that he was using, the stupid threats coming from a stupid face.”

Trump said he had a “good relationship” with Kim Jong Un of North Korea, who informed Trump the communist dictator had “a red button on his desk” to launch nuclear missiles.

Trump quipped: “I said I have a red button on my desk too, and my red button works!”

“If you have a smart president, we are not in danger from those countries,” he added.

The American exodus

Musk discussed skyrocketing prices for goods and services that is causing severe financial pain for millions of Americans, indicating, “Inflation is just a form of taxation.”

“Inflation comes from government overspending, because the government checks never bounce. … We need to reduce our government spending … and we need to live within our means.”

He said if states “risk bankruptcy and they’re not getting bailed out by the federal government, that’s the only thing that will make them change.”

“So many of these governors have so many people leaving their states, they should get U-Haul Salesman of the Year.”

Trump agreed, saying, “It’s a disaster with inflation.”

“Today, [Americans] are using all their money and borrowing money just to live. … “This stupid administration allowed this to happen.You think Biden could do this interview? You think Kamala could to his interview?

“No they could not,” Musk replied.

Back to Butler

Trump announced he would be going back to Butler, the Pennsylvania town where he was nearly assassinated July 13, with his next visit expected in October.

“I think I’ll probably start by saying, ‘As I was saying, before I was rudely interrupted,” Trump clowned.

Regarding the chart on illegal immigration he was looking at when he was struck in the ear by a bullet, Trump said half-jokingly: “Illegal immigration saved my life.”

“It’s very much, I say an action of God,” Trump said of his head turning at the precise moment to avoid being killed. “It’s a miracle and I’m honored by it.”

“It was a miracle, if I hadn’t turned my head, I wouldn’t be talking to you right now,” Trump told Musk, who replied: “From a different realm,” perhaps.

“Your actions in the heat of fire,” Musk continued, “you can’t fake bravery under such circumstances. A lot of people admire your courage under fire there.”

Trump said: “I’m gonna sleep with that chart always, that chart was very important for several reasons.”

The conversation was scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. Eastern Time, but was delayed for at least 45 minutes, with Musk saying a large Distributed Denial of Service attack on his platform prevented users from accessing his talk with Trump on time.

(LISTEN TO THE CONVERSATION: It commences at 52:27 into the livestream because of the delay):

b) From the Daily Signal to MHProNews about Must-Trump Conversation.

News

7 Takeaways From Trump’s ‘Conversation’ With Elon Musk

2. ‘Made Me More of a Believer’

Musk began the conversation by asking Trump about the attempted assassination at a July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

A bullet grazed his right ear, the former president recalled, as he turned slightly to talk about an oversize chart showing illegal immigration numbers during the Trump-Pence administration years with the much higher numbers of the Biden-Harris administration.

“It was a bigger miracle that I was looking directly at the shooter, so [the bullet] hit me at an angle that was far less destructive than any other miracle,” Trump told Musk in the audio interview on X.

One rallygoer was killed and two others wounded by the shooter, and Trump expressed sorrow that they were hit by bullets meant for him.

“For those people that don’t believe in God, I think we’ve all got to start thinking about that,” Trump said. “I’m a believer, but it’s made me more of a believer, I think. A lot of great people have said that to me, actually. It was amazing that I happened to be turned at that perfect angle.”

Musk, who endorsed Trump after the attempt to kill him, called him “courageous” Monday night for standing up and pumping his fist after being hit.

3. ‘Illegal Immigration Saved My Life’

The two talked about the shooting at some length, dwelling on the large chart depicting unlawful border crossings that led Trump to tilt his head in a certain direction.

“Illegal immigration saved my life,” Trump said at one point, prompting laughter from Musk.

Trump regularly campaigns on restoring border security and keeping criminal gangs and drug traffickers from entering the country. The former president also has promised the “largest deportation effort” in history to send home illegal aliens admitted by the Biden-Harris administration.

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., had his staff create the original chart for use during a hearing.

“I’ll be sleeping with that chart. That chart was very important for a lot of reasons,” Trump said.

He mentioned several times that Harris had the unofficial title of “border czar” after Biden assigned her early in 2021 to determine the root causes of illegal immigration, a problem that then worsened.

“I saw an ad from Kamala talking about providing border security,” Trump said. “Where has she been for three and a half years?”

“We’re already overwhelmed, Elon. We’re overwhelmed,” the former president said at another point, speaking of illegal aliens admitted by the Biden-Harris administration.

4. ‘Dragged Him Behind the Barn’

Later, Musk used the word “shot” in a figurative way in describing how Democrats forced Biden out of the 2024 race, using a metaphor for putting an injured farm animal out of its misery.

“This was a coup of the president of the United States,” Trump said of Biden, then referred to other top Democrats. “He didn’t want to leave and they said, ‘We can do this the nice way or do this hard way.’”

Musk concurred, saying metaphorically that Biden was shot.

“They just took him out back behind the shed and basically shot him,” Musk said.

Trump began to say, “What they did to this guy … ,” before clarifying that he didn’t want to defend Biden too much.

“I’m not a fan of his, and he was a horrible president, the worst president in history,” Trump said, sounding a familiar theme.

5. ‘Defective Government’

Trump ridiculed the Biden-Harris administration as “defective.”

“We have a defective government. These are defective people,” the 45th president said.

Later, Trump said that in some ways, the U.S. government has become worse than its enemies.

“We have some really bad people in our government,” Trump said. “I’d say they’re more dangerous than Russia or China. We need a smart president, a president that gets it. We are not in danger from those countries because they need us and they need our help.”

Musk did most of the asking of questions during the exchange. However, at one point Trump asked Musk: “You think Biden could do this interview? You think that Kamala could do this interview?”

Musk laughed and responded, “No. They could not.”

Trump replied, “It’s pretty sad.”

“Yes. Absolutely,” Musk agreed.

6. ‘Iron Dome’ for America

Trump said Biden’s comments have made the world less safe, including the president’s talk of Ukraine joining the NATO alliance even as Russia dug in with its invasion of the former Soviet republic.

“Biden had a low IQ 30 years ago. He’s very low IQ now,” Trump said.

“It was so bad the words he was using,” Trump said of Biden. “The stupid threats coming from his stupid face. It could lead to World War III.”

Musk asserted: “People underrate the risk of World War III,” and added, “It’s game over for humanity.”

Trump argued that the biggest threat facing humanity isn’t climate change or global warming, but “nuclear warming.”

Trump brought up an “Iron Dome” for America, using the name of the antimissile system Israel developed as a shield to foil the rocket attacks of its enemies.

“Why shouldn’t we have an Iron Dome?” Trump said. “Israel has an Iron Dome.”

7. President’s ‘Vegetable Stage’

“Now Biden is close to vegetable stage, in my opinion,” Trump said bluntly at one point, perhaps alluding to those who argue that Harris should have succeeded Biden as president by now, rather than just replace him on the ballot.

“I looked at him on the beach [in photos over the weekend] and I thought why would anyone allow him—the guy could barely walk. Does he have a political adviser that thinks this looks good?” Trump said.

“He can’t lift the chair,” Trump added. “The chair weighs about three ounces! It’s meant for children and old people.”

Musk replied, “It’s clearly like we don’t have a president right now.”

Trump added of Harris and her record as vice president, senator, and California attorney general: “And she’s worse than him.”

Ken McIntyre contributed to this report. ##

Part V – Additional Information with More MHProNews Analysis and Commentary

1) MHProNews and our MHLivingNews sister-site are on record as multi-year Musk skeptics and critics. An example of that is linked below.

2) The remarks and image collage that follow are from the right-leaning ZeroHedge financial-news site. The Biden-Harris “Build Back Better” image is accurate and there are scores of those to be found online with a simple image search. See the below the following.

The photo collage below is from screen captures from left-leaning Google images 8.13.2024.

2) In 2020 Musk had not yet purchased Twitter which he later rebranded as X. In the run-up to the election, then Jack Dorsey led Twitter, Mark Zuckerberg led Facebook/Meta, and YouTube (a sister brand to Google and owned by Alphabet) all banned Trump. It was blatant election interference, as each of those operations’ leaders were pro-Democratic and supported Biden-Harris.

3) Also in 2020, some 51 active and former heads of American spy- and law enforcement agencies signed a letter which inaccurately declared that the Hunter Biden laptop story that was also throttled by the main social media platforms was said to have the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign. That turned out not to be true, but the damage around election time was already done. But once again, that in hindsight was election interference by active and former leaders in U.S. ‘intelligence services’ that obviously benefited Joe Biden and Kamala Harris while it hurt Trump.

4) There are numbers of stances that Trump has taken that are not in alignment with the specific views of MHProNews/MHLivingNews parent company leadership. As was noted in the preface, there are no perfect candidates. For that matter, there are no perfect voters.

5) That said, while lifelong Democrat turned independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has some interesting and arguably useful views on the nexus of power between big business and government in the U.S., he holds too many views that are even further from those held by MHProNews/MHLivingNews parent company leadership. The same is true of the other minor party and independent candidates.

Note that Kennedy has made similar statements as former Democratic presidential hopeful Seth Moulton, who has admitted that the Democrats have become the party of the wealthy, while clinging to the image of ‘representing’ the interests of the poor, working class, and marginalized.

While some of the financial elites, including Musk, seem to be backing Trump at this time, there are reasons to believe that “Wall Street,” Hollywood, much of the big media and big corporate interests still back the Democrats, in this case, Harris-Walz.  Biden was jettisoned by Democrats, as he himself all but said in an interview, because of the perception that he couldn’t beat Trump. Without running for president herself in 2023-2024 before Biden bowed out, Harris was anointed by party leaders in what many say is an undemocratic process. Kennedy, a lifelong Democrat, also alleged that the primary system was rigged to favor Biden who recently bowed out under pressure. Trump and others have called this a political coup.

But this is hardly the first time this has happened. There are those who assert that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had the 2016 Democratic nomination rigged against Bernie Sanders, a charge that former DNC party Chair Donna Brazile said was true.

Then in 2020, there were allegations that the frontrunner Sanders was once again bumped by Democratic Party insiders in favor of Biden, even though Sanders was ahead in the early delegates count before South Carolina and Super Tuesday.

Now, in 2024, Biden was the apparent winner of the Democratic Party’s nomination process. Kennedy and others were shut down, they assert. Then, when the Trump-Biden debate occurred, ”
“the Party” bosses began the process of pushing Biden out.

The behavior of the Democratic leaders have been called ‘fascist,’ which is odd, because that is what Democrats claim that Trump-Vance ticket represents.  But fascism is “corporatism,” and the corporate interests have been running the Democratic party for decades, per sources that include Democratic-leaning media.  But what Trump did in 2016 was beat the Bush-wing of the Republican party, meaning, Trump beat the big corporate interests.

6) For our leadership, this upcoming 2024 election comes down to a binary choice between Harris-Walz and Trump-Vance. It may be understandable why some Democrats would vote Kennedy Shanahan, who hold typical Democratic positions, save perhaps that they are trying to expose the corporate takeover of the Democratic Party.

7) Democrats have had 3.5 years in control of the federal government. Kamala Harris cast some key votes in the Senate to get the Biden agenda adopted. While some may try to obscure those facts, MHProNews will report the facts as they are known.

8) The late comic George Carlin was no conservative. He mocked several conservative beliefs, including belief in God, pro-life beliefs, and the like. That said, Carlin’s classic video posted in the article below shows his belief that both major parties were in the pockets of big business interests.  As was noted above, there is evidence for that, until Trump upended the Bush-wing of the Republican Party.

Leftist professor Noam Chomsky described the process for “Manufacturing Consent” decades ago in a way that largely fits what Carlin said too. MHProNews/MHLivingNews has fact-checked the above and below as shown.

Carlin pointed out in that video that is posted in the article above that the corporate interests dominate media. More details on that are found in the report about “Shadows of Liberty” in more specific details linked above.

But in the case of Harris, Matt Stoller previously said this on July 25, 2024 in an email to MHProNews and others.

Billionaire Orders Kamala Harris to Fire Lina Khan LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman gave $10 million to Harris’ campaign and demanded an end to Biden’s tariff and antitrust policies.

9) Manufactured housing and affordable housing have demonstrably suffered under Democratic leadership. Homelessness has risen despite more federal spending on homelessness. The programs of the left demonstrably don’t work. That may explain why Musk, a self-proclaimed moderate Democrat, is backing Trump. Musk sees Trump as the best available option for a brighter American future. See those reports linked above and below to learn more.

From Gov. Tim Walz’s state of MN.

10) As promised from the headline, per left-leaning Democracy Now! about then-Senator Harris when she previously ran for president as a Democrat.

So, it wasn’t just now former Democrat Rep Tulsi Gabbard (HI-D) that outed Harris as a phony. Democracy Now previously did too.

11) From ZeroHedge

As a potential crib sheet for the discussion, a number of conservative X users posted the following list:

President Trump’s 20 Core Promises To Make America Great Again

1. SEAL THE BORDER AND STOP THE MIGRANT INVASION
2. CARRY OUT THE LARGEST DEPORTATION OPERATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY
3. END INFLATION, AND MAKE AMERICA AFFORDABLE AGAIN
4. MAKE AMERICA THE DOMINANT ENERGY PRODUCER IN THE WORLD, BY FAR!
5. STOP OUTSOURCING, AND TURN THE UNITED STATES INTO MANUFACTURING SUPERPOWER
6. LARGE TAX CUTS FOR WORKERS, AND NO TAX ON TIPS!
7. DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR BILL OF RIGHTS, AND OUR FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS, INCLUDING FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, AND THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS
8. PREVENT WORLD WAR THREE, RESTORE PEACE IN EUROPE AND IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AND BUILD A GREAT IRON DOME MISSILE DEFENSE SHIELD OVER OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY – ALL MADE IN AMERICA
9. END THE WEAPONIZATION OF GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
10. STOP THE MIGRANT CRIME EPIDEMIC, DEMOLISH THE FOREIGN DRUG CARTELS, CRUSH GANG VIOLENCE, AND LOCK UP VIOLENT OFFENDERS
11. REBUILD OUR CITIES, INCLUDING WASHINGTON DC, MAKING THEM SAFE, CLEAN, AND BEAUTIFUL AGAIN
12. STRENGTHEN AND MODERNIZE OUR MILITARY, MAKING IT, WITHOUT QUESTION, THE STRONGEST AND MOST POWERFUL IN THE WORLD
13. KEEP THE U.S. DOLLAR AS THE WORLD’S RESERVE CURRENCY
14. FIGHT FOR AND PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE WITH NO CUTS, INCLUDING NO CHANGES TO THE RETIREMENT AGE
15. CANCEL THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE MANDATE AND CUT COSTLY AND BURDENSOME REGULATIONS
16. CUT FEDERAL FUNDING FOR ANY SCHOOL PUSHING CRITICAL RACE THEORY, RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY, AND OTHER INAPPROPRIATE RACIAL, SEXUAL, OR POLITICAL CONTENT ON OUR CHILDREN
17. KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS
18. DEPORT PRO-HAMAS RADICALS AND MAKE OUR COLLEGE CAMPUSES SAFE AND PATRIOTIC AGAIN
19. SECURE OUR ELECTIONS, INCLUDING SAME DAY VOTING, VOTER IDENTIFICATION, PAPER BALLOTS, AND PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP
20. UNITE OUR COUNTRY BY BRINGING IT TO NEW AND RECORD LEVELS OF SUCCESS

Combined views of the conversation with @realDonaldTrump and subsequent discussion by other accounts now ~1 billion https://t.co/s8x8QmdmnY

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 13, 2024

pic.twitter.com/tf87iebMdN

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 12, 2024

Per ZeroHedge: “The Harris campaign got their best 20 something year old PR intern to type up an anxiety laced post that didn’t address any of the content of the conversation between Musk and Trump, and instead focused on the technical issues as some kind of criticism.”

20 something Kamala PR person can’t handle that it wasn’t some sort of staged fawning phone call from a reality show, that there was actual long form substance and real conversation involved, and tech issues because it wasn’t completely fake and staged and re-done until ‘right’ https://t.co/nk6CkZQMme

— m o d e r n i t y (@ModernityNews) August 13, 2024

12) Having delivered on the headline topics, and as was noted in the preface above, all three of the top candidates/tickets in the U.S. 2024 election cycle have billionaires/corporate interests that are backing their pick. So the Harris-Walz campaign statement above is one more example of paltering, a half-truth. There may well be more billionaires and big corporate interests backing Harris-Walz than are backing Trump-Vance. That said, note the report linked below.

13) Count on MHProNews to sift the wheat from the chaff, to follow the money trail, and to tell it like the evidence warrants.  The market report follows.

Part VI

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Headlines from right-of-center Newsmax – 8.12.2024

• West Cautions Iran: ‘Stand Down’ on Israel Attack Threat
• The U.S. and European allies called on Iran to “stand down” Monday, as fears mounted of an imminent attack on Israel that could spark all-out war in the Mideast. Tensions are soaring in the region, with the U.S. rushing a missile sub and an aircraft carrier group in support of Israel. [Full Story]
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• Defense Sec. Austin Rushes USS Abraham Lincoln, Missile Submarine to Mideast
• Submarine to Mideast
• Israel at War
• Oil Jumps on Prospect of Widening War Curtailing Global Supply
• US Beefs up Posture in Middle East, Warns an Iran-backed Attack on Israel Could Come This Week
• West Tells Iran to ‘Stand Down’ on Israel Attack Threats
• Hamas: One Israeli Hostage Killed, Two ‘Seriously Wounded’
• Netanyahu, Gallant at Odds on Gaza War Objectives
• US Expects Gaza Talks to Continue Toward Cease-Fire
• IDF Vows Strong Response to Iran, Hezbollah Attack
• Israel Keeps Up Strikes as Fears of Wider War Grow
• Hamas Rejects US-Egyptian-Qatari Invite to Talks
• Newsmax TV
• Fred Fleitz: Pope ‘Should Not Go to China’
• Ellie Cohanim: Biden-Harris Caused Iranian Aggression
• Blaine Holt: Hezbollah in Hiding With Strike Imminent
• Steil: Emergency Rules to Prevent Campaign Fraud
• Rick Gates: Walz Must Answer to Repeated Misspeak
• Fleitz: Iran Hacked Trump to Keep Him From Winning
• Pete King: Trump Must Find Way Past Harris Media Bias
• Tudor Dixon: Dems Have ‘Shiny New Object’ With Harris
• Newsfront
• Trump to Sue DOJ Over Mar-a-Lago Raid
• Former President Donald Trump is preparing to sue the Department of Justice over the FBI’s raid on his Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022, claiming that it was “political persecution” and unlawful…. [Full Story]
• Trump Rips Harris Over Flip-Flops
• Former President Trump dragged Vice President Kamala Harris on Truth [Full Story]
• Disney Exec a Major Harris Campaign Donor, Friend
• The co-chair of ABC News’ parent company is a longtime, personal [Full Story]
• Related
• What Kamala’s Past Debates Could Foretell vs. Trump
• Dems Target Overseas Voters to Boost Harris’ Support
• Vance Turns ‘Weird’ Criticism Against Walz, Calls for Debate
• Pro-Trump Super PAC Dropping $100M on TV Ads
• Trump Makes X/Twitter Return With Historic ‘Better Off’ Post
• Dems Launch Ad Campaign for Harris-Walz in Battleground States
• Wall Street Mixed Ahead of Economic Data; CPI in Focus
• Wall Street stocks closed mixed Monday as investors braced for a slew [Full Story]
• Peter Navarro: Trump Should Focus on Policy
• Peter Navarro, a White House adviser in the Trump administration, [Full Story]
• Critics: DNI Intel Report Understates Subversion
• The National Counterintelligence and Security Center makes its case [Full Story] | Platinum Article
• Related
• Fmr CISA Chief Krebs on ‘2016 Playbook’ Hack: ‘Buckle Up’
• Fred Fleitz to Newsmax: Iran Hacks Trump to Stop Him
• Trump Campaign Says It Was Hacked, Blames Iran
• Microsoft: Iranian Hackers Target US Election
• Ukraine Claims 386 Square Miles in Russia
• Ukraine’s top commander said on Monday Kyiv controlled around 621 [Full Story]
• Related
• Putin Orders Army to ‘Dislodge’ Ukraine Troops in Russia
• Zelenskyy: Taking Fight to Russia to Force Peace Talks
• Russians Evacuating as Ukraine Takes Fight to Russia
• Zelenskyy: Russia Lit Zaporizhzhia Nuke Plant on Fire
• Pro-Ukraine Republicans Aim to Avoid Lapse in Funding
• Iran Shows Long-Range Drones at Russian Event
• Graham: Ukraine Foray Into Russia Bold, Beautiful
• ‘Dr. Doom’ Nouriel Roubini Upbeat About US Economy
• Economist Nouriel Roubini dismissed last week’s sharp market downturn [Full Story]
• Related
• Consumer Backlash May Be Final Blow to Inflation Spike
• How to Get Relief From Unexpectedly High Medical Bills
• US Says it Has Not Offered Maduro Amnesty since Election
• President Joe Biden’s administration has not made an offer of amnesty [Full Story]
• UK, France, Germany Warn Iran Against Israel Strike
• In a joint statement, the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, and [Full Story]
• Florida: Say Bye to Your Car Insurance Bill if You Live in These Zip Codes
• Otto Quotes
• Poland, US Strike Deal for Patriot Launchers
• In a further strengthening of the cooperation between the Polish and [Full Story]
• Biden Supports Cutting Taxes on Tips: WH
• President Joe Biden supports the idea of eliminating taxes on tips [Full Story]
• US Federal Deficit Grows 10 Percent to $244 Billion
• The U.S. government recorded a $244 billion budget deficit for July, [Full Story]
• McConnell: Dems’ Total Control ‘Worst Nightmare’
• Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told Republican [Full Story]
• US Surges Assets to Mideast, Expects Iran Strike
• Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a guided missile submarine [Full Story]
• Migrants Charged in Coney Island Rape, Assault
• In Coney Island on Sunday, a woman allegedly was raped at knifepoint [Full Story]
• UK’s Starmer Cancels Vacation Due to Riots
• British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has canceled his family vacation [Full Story]
• House Freedom Caucus Lists Spending Bill Demands
• As Congress prepares for a spending fight in September, the House [Full Story]
• Speaker Johnson: Senate Must Pass SAVE Act
• House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., called on the Democrat-led Senate [Full Story]
• US Concerned Iran to Deliver Ballistic Missiles to Russia
• The United States is deeply concerned by reports that Iran is [Full Story]
• Trump Shooting Task Force Seeks Docs, Briefings
• The bipartisan House task force investigating the assassination [Full Story]
• Judge: Alternatives Used to Expose Wis. Court Leak
• Wisconsin Capitol Police declined to investigate the leak of a state [Full Story]
• Texas to Probe Utility After Hurricane Blackouts
• Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday that he is [Full Story]
• Mondaire Jones Panned for Push to Let Prisoners Vote
• Former New York Democrat Rep. Mondaire Jones, who is currently [Full Story]
• Crews Demolishing Texas Church, Site of Slaughter in 2017
• Crews on Monday began to tear down a Texas church where a gunman [Full Story]
• Man Arrested After London Stabbing, Child Among Hurt
• British police said they arrested a man after a stabbing in London’s [Full Story]
• Dems Target Overseas Voters to Boost Harris’ Support
• The Democratic National Committee will spend over $100,000 in a [Full Story]
• Bryan Steil to Newsmax: Probe ActBlue for ‘Potential Money-Laundering Scheme’
• Bryan Steil, R-Wis., has urged the Federal Election Commission [Full Story]
• Biden Admin Tackles Helpline Wait Times
• The Biden administration Monday unveiled new rules and efforts [Full Story]
• Jerusalem Post Editor: Harris Poses Existential Threat to Israel
• If Vice President Kamala Harris gets elected in November, it would [Full Story]
• IDF: Around 30 Rockets Launched From Lebanon Into Israel
• The IDF reported Sunday evening that approximately 30 rockets were [Full Story]
• More Newsfront
• Finance
• Wall Street Mixed Ahead of Economic Data; CPI in Focus
• Wall Street Mixed Ahead of Economic Data; CPI in FocusWall Street stocks closed mixed Monday as investors braced for a slew of U.S. economic data this week, especially consumer prices, to gauge the outlook for Federal Reserve monetary policy…. [Full Story]
• Pro-Trump Super PAC Dropping $100 Million on TV Ads
• Google, Selena Gomez Partner to Fund Teen Mental Health
• Oil Prices Jump on Prospect of Widening Mideast War Curtailing Global Supply
• Tuition-Free College Isn’t
• More Finance
• Health
• 3 Vitamins You Need After Age 50
• More than 78% of adults over the age of 50 take a dietary supplement and for those over the age of 65 and older, that number rises to 83%, according to AARP.As we get older, our bodies go through some major physiological changes, says Tara Collingwood, a registered…… [Full Story]
• Google, Selena Gomez Partner on Teen Mental Health
• Fruits, Vegetables Lower Your Body’s Acid Levels, Boosting Health
• Keeping Lymph Nodes Could Aid Prostate Cancer Treatment
• How to Get Relief From Unexpectedly High Medical Bills

 

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Notice: MHProNews invites the firms or organizations named in these reports to respond to any concerns about possibly inaccurate information via email that identifies the concern and offers evidence that sheds a different light on the topic discussed. That said, until 5.9.2024, neither MHI nor most MHI publicly traded ‘insider brands’ have done so. They’ve been repeatedly invited to do so, including but not limited to an outreach on Dec 7, 2o23 and Feb 25, 2024. In the case of that response linked above, no apparent reply was given to follow up inquires by MHProNews. 

APO = Apolo Global Management – bought Inspire Communities

BAM = Brookfield Asset Management – owns and invests in manufactured home communities (MHCs).

BLK = BlackRock – conglomerate has investments in firms and operations involved in manufactured housing.

BRK-A = Berkshire Hathaway – includes outright ownership of Clayton Homes, 21st Mortgage Corp, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, other manufactured home industry linked firms (MHC brokerage, suppliers, etc.).

BX = Blackstone – Blackstone Group LP has made its first big bet on manufactured housing by buying a portfolio of communities sold by Tricon Capital Group Inc.

CDPYF = Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust – also has manufactured home communities (MHCs).

CIGI = Colliers International Group Inc. – The Manufactured Housing and RV Group “We Assist Owners and Investors with Disposition, Acquisition, and Financing for Manufactured Housing Communities and RV Parks.”

CG = The Carlyle Group – has manufactured home communities investments.

CSGP = CoStar Group – is commercial real estate’s leading provider of information, analytics and online marketplaces. They acquired listing service Homes.com.

CVCO = Cavco Industries – manufactured home and other factory-built housing production, retail, finance, insurance.

ECNCF = ECN Capital Group – includes manufactured home lender Triad Financial Services.

ELS = Equity LifeStyle Properties – includes land lease manufactured home communities (MHCs), but also RV and marine slips holdings. Also has captive manufactured home retail operations, and parent to Datacomp/MHVillage.

FGF = FG Financial Group – FG Communities “Owns and Operates Growing Portfolio of Manufactured Housing Communities.” KEY = KeyCorp – manufactured home community financing and manufactured home single-family mortgage financing.

KMMPF = Killam Apartment REITs- (includes manufactured home communities (MHCs).

LCII = LCI Industries – components for the manufactured home industry and others (RVs, housing, etc.).

LEGH = Legacy Housing – produces manufactured homes, tiny houses, retail, and captive finance operations.

LPX = Louisiana Pacific Corporation – components for the manufactured home industry and others (housing, etc.).

MHC-UN.TO = Flagship Communities Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT).

MHPC = Manufactured Housing Properties – land lease manufactured home communities (MHCs).

MMI = Marcus and Millichap – commercial real estate brokerage services that include land lease manufactured home communities (MHCs).

NOBH = Nobility Homes – produces and offers captive retail, financing, and insurance services for HUD Code manufactured homes and modular homes.

PATK = Patrick Industries – components for the manufactured home industry and others (RVs, housing, etc.).

SKY = Skyline Champion – produces and offers captive retail, financing, and insurance for HUD Code manufactured homes and modular homes.

SUI = Sun Communities – includes land lease manufactured home communities (MHCs), but also RV and marine slips holdings. Also has captive manufactured home retail operations.

TPG = TPG includes land lease manufactured home communities (MHCs) among a broader basket of investments.

UMH = UMH Properties – includes land lease manufactured home communities and captive manufactured home retail, leasing, and financing operations.

UFPI = UFP Industries – components for the manufactured home industry and others (housing, etc.).

• • • NOTE 1: Chart above of manufactured housing connected equities includes the Canadian stock, ECN, which purchased Triad Financial Services, a manufactured home industry finance lender.
    • NOTE 2: Drew changed its name and trading symbol at the end of 2016 to Lippert (LCII).
    • NOTE 3: Deer Valley was largely taken private, say company insiders in a message to MHProNews on 12.15.2020, but there are still some outstanding shares of the stock from the days when it was a publicly traded firm.  Thus, there is still periodic activity on DVLY.
    • Note 4: some recent or related reports to the REITs, stocks, and other equities named above follow in the reports linked below.
    • Note 5: Gifts of Sight and Insights, What’s in Store for 2024? Including 2023 Year End Reflections, manufactured homes, manufactured housing, mobile homes, MHVille, USA Snapshots, Manufactured housing industry year in review 2023.

 

2023 …Berkshire Hathaway is the parent company to Clayton Homes, 21^st Mortgage, Vanderbilt Mortgage and other factory-built housing industry suppliers.
· LCI Industries, Patrick, UFPI, and LP each are suppliers to the manufactured housing industry, among others.
· AMG, CG, and TAVFX have investments in manufactured housing related businesses. For insights from third-parties and clients about our publisher, click here.

 

 

2022 was a tough year for many stocks. Unfortunately, that pattern held true for manufactured home industry (MHVille) connected stocks too. See the facts, linked above.

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• Note 2: Manufactured housing, building, factories, retail, dealers, manufactured home, communities, passive mobile home park investing, suppliers, brokers, finance, financial services, macro-markets, manufactured housing stocks, Manufactured Home Communities Real Estate Investment Trusts, MHC REITs.
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  APO, Apollo Global Management, BAM, Brookfield Asset Management, BLK, BlackRock, BRK-A, Berkshire Hathaway, BX, Blackstone, CDPYF, Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust, CIGI, Colliers International Group Inc, CG, The Carlyle Group, CSGP, CoStar Group, CVCO, Cavco Industries, ECNCF, ECN Capital Group, ELS, Equity LifeStyle Properties, FGF, FG Financial Group, FG Communities,  KEY, KeyCorp, KMMPF, Killam Apartment REITs, LCII, LCI Industries, LEGH, Legacy Housing, LPX, Louisiana Pacific Corporation, MHC-UN.TO, Flagship Communities Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), MHPC, Manufactured Housing Properties, MMI, Marcus and Millichap, NOBH, Nobility Homes, PATK, Patrick Industries, SKY, Skyline Champion, SUI, Sun Communities, UMH, UMH Properties, UFPI, UFP Industries.

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