Perhaps unwittingly, when rival politicians assert that their opponents are a ‘threat to democracy in America,’ that happens to include the title of a famous book entitled “Democracy in America” by Alexis de Tocqueville. Due in part to books, letters, and other writings including de Tocqueville’s classic Democracy in America, contemporary readers can know with reasonable precision what those words and notions mean. Such historical references are useful in a time when several competing major, independent, and minor party candidates are making claims about their rivals that can’t both be completely true at the same time. Kamala Harris (D) stood on stage at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago IL this week. Like her chosen vice presidential running mate, Governor Tim Walz (MN-D), they proclaimed anew that Donald Trump and his movement are threats to democracy in America. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.), the son and nephew of famous slain Democratic Party icons, Senator Robert “Bobby” Kennedy (NY-D) and President John Fitzgerald “Jack” Kennedy (D), made his own allegations and claims over a year ago (and again yesterday) about serious concerns within his own lifelong affiliation of the Democratic party’s structure and inner workings. Kennedy, a successful environmental attorney and children’s health advocate, claimed there was a corrupt nexus between swaths of big business, big media, big tech, and big government. RFK Jr. vowed at his campaign launch in 2023 to fight that corruption with a revolutionary spirit. The deposed 45th President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump has for 9 years as a candidate and politician, spotlighted issues he raised decades ago as a businessman, developer, and media mogul. What too few tell their audiences and readers is that all of those figures are or were aligned with the Democratic Party for much or all of their lives.

Trump is an ex-Democrat who won the Republican Party’s nomination in 2015-2016 blasting the errors and corruption of the Bush administration and family, as well as ripping on the Obama-Biden administration for similar claimed misdeeds. As regular and detail minded readers of MHProNews know, the largely leftist (liberal) perspectives in the acclaimed and award-winning documentary drama Shadows of Liberty similarly exposes the corruption, misinformation, deception and misdirection in U.S. politics that exposed both Presidents Bush and Barack Obama as being tools for business interests and their respective media allies. Shadows of Liberty, in our editorial view, ought to be required viewing and reading for every high school and college student in the U.S. It is difficult to imagine how someone can sort out the facts from fables, fibs and fiction absent the clarity that the full-length version of that well-crafted documentary drama provides.

Using mainstream media sources from the left and right and glancing back at videos from years ago that are often available on left-leaning YouTube, it is entirely possible to see who is consistent or inconsistent. It is entirely possible to see who is telling the truth, who is using hyperbole, who is lying through their teeth and projecting onto others what they themselves are guilty of doing. At MHProNews we editorially admire the motto used by WMAL, “Making Sense of the News” where former award-winning CNN journalist Chris Plante, whose family has just celebrated 100 years of involvement in media, has long said that American politics had become ‘a great big bad television production.’

With that backdrop, let’s state the obvious.

It is not possible that Democrats, Kennedy-Shanahan, and Trump-Vance-MAGA Republicans are all correct in their respective claims. Some are at least partially if not largely wrong. If democracy in America is threatened, where does that threat originate? Part VI of this report will explore that topic, but only after reports that include videos of those various candidates is laid out.

The left-leaning, meaning more pro-Democratic Harris-Walz orbit, Boston Globe said this in a “Breaking News” alert to MHProNews yesterday.

“Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the independent presidential candidate who ran one of the most influential third-party bids in decades, is suspending his campaign, withdrawing from ballots in key battleground states, and backing former president Donald Trump, he said on Friday.”  MHProNews has monitored the Kennedy campaign from its outset. Millions will agree with Kennedy on some things, and disagree with him on others. Some vilify him. Influential alternative media podcaster Joe Rogan all but endorsed Kennedy just weeks ago. Per left-leaning Business Insider: “Joe Rogan has, by far, the most popular podcast on Spotify, with 14.5 million followers. This doesn’t include his YouTube and Apple Podcasts…” ZipDo said: “Joe Rogan’s show has over 8 million subscribers on YouTube.”

Rogan illustrates that the media environment has fragmented to a surprising degree in the past decade.

Ad Week, which monitors and reports on cable TV audience sizes, said the follow.

“Despite being a busy news month filled with breaking developments out of the Middle East, as well as the start of former President Donald Trump‘s hush money trial, April delivered a mixed bag of ratings numbers for the big three cable news networks.

Fox News remained the most-watched news network in total day and primetime for April 2024, extending its first place lead to 39 months in primetime…”

April 2024 cable news ratings (Nielsen Live+SD data):

Meaning, Rogan’s podcast can have more listeners/viewers than all three major cable news networks combined. That doesn’t mean that Rogan’s more influential than those legacy media brands. It does mean that millions have sought out voices on the left-center-right that provide insights and information that may or may not be as readily found on mainstream news sites.

In fairness, before proceeding into the following reports, it must be understood that the ideals of liberalism that have undergirded the Democratic Party’s beliefs for over half a century have much good in them. Someone doesn’t have to be a Democrat to see why the Democratic Party’s stated principles may have appeal to tens of millions.

It is not only appealing, it is arguably right and just to champion the cause of the little guy or gal.

It is right and just to say that minorities and women merit the same rights as whites and men.

That is necessary to grasp, because it is the hook that has held together much of the Democratic Party and its base for over 60 years.

Democrats have attracted liberals and leftists among whites, and attracted tens of millions of blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities into a coalition that has more or less governed and driven the agenda in the U.S. since RFK Jr’s uncle was assassinated on national television while campaigning for reelection in Dealy Plaza in Dallas, TX.

That murder in Dealy Plaza was a historic Secret Service failure. It arguably has curios echoes to an equally egregious failure by Secret Service in Butler, PA, where Trump dramatically had his ear pierced by one of multiple bullets that flew by, killing one rally attendee, wounding others, and with the counter snipers taking a shot that killed purported would by assassin Thomas Crooks. Crooks, just twenty, somehow managed to take advantage of several Secret Service errors. Not until this week has some of those errors been met with a suspension of agents, and only the former head of the Secret Service, Kimberly A. Cheatle, was forced out.

Cheatle, said left-leaning Wikipedia, “is an American former law enforcement officer who served as the 27th director of the United States Secret Service from 2022 until 2024.” As the U.S. Secret Service website said: “Ronald Rowe, Jr. tapped as Acting Secret Service Chief to replace Kimberly Cheatle.”

Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent himself and popular media personality, and others assert that Rowe also shares responsibility for events leading up to that fateful day in Bulter, PA.

Untold thousands of items in the U.S. alone get reported by mainstream media from coast-to-coast. It is too much for anyone to keep up with. At best, individuals can strive to be reasonably well informed about the matters that impact them and their lives.

Democrats, now formally led by the Harris Walz ticket, say that Donald Trump and the MAGA (also known as the America First-Americans First) movement are a “threat to democracy.”  So much so, that to this moment, the Harris Walz campaign website has no real policy positions, as MHProNews reported days ago. Much of the DNC’s event in Chicago revolved around slamming Donald Trump, and to a lesser extent, Senator J.D. Vance (OH-R), who not so long ago was hailed for his book Hillbilly Elegy, which acclaimed director Ron Howard turned into a movie for Netflix. Netflix has paid the Obamas tens of millions of dollars. Howard and Netflix are largely on the left.

The U.S. economy has an annual gross domestic product (GDP), per left-leaning Google, of $25.44 trillion USD (2022). BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street have combined assets under management (AUM) that rival the U.S. GDP. Those are just three of the many investment firms and private equity interests that hold sway in the U.S.  According to Senator Bernie Sanders (VT-DS),

“Bernie Sanders: BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street ‘oligarchy’ threatens democracy.”

‘Democracy will not survive’

That’s per ETF stream, which cited the Sanders tweet (X-post) on that topic.

The dominance of the ‘Big Three’ US fund giants BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) is a threat to democracy, US senator Bernie Sanders has warned.

In his latest attack on the three asset managers, Sanders labelled the three Wall Street firms as an “oligarchy” and added “democracy will not survive” with concentration at current levels.

Tweeting on X, Sanders said: “This is what oligarchy is about. Today just three Wall Street firms, BlackRock, Vanguard & State Street manage $20.7trn in assets.

“These three firms are major shareholders in 95% of S&P 500 companies. Democracy will not survive with this concentration of economic and political power.”

Yahoo Finance said: “A research paper titled Opportunism in the Shareholder Voting and Engagement of the ‘Big Three’ Investment Advisers to Index Funds, found it was difficult for the firms to act in the interest of each end investor and therefore often voted in line with the board of the company.”

According to ThinkAdviser is an opposing view.

Days after Sanders’ tweet, Masters in Business podcaster Barry Ritholtz, co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, took issue with Sanders in a blog post headlined “Even Socialists Misunderstand Indexing.”

“Bernie, Bernie, Bernie,” he wrote. “Of all the endless Wall Street things to be legitimately angry about — excess fees, leverage, conflicts of interest, risk-taking, bailouts … — this has to be the single worst hot take by any politician on either side of the aisle.”

Sanders’ position “shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what’s been going on in the world of investments, and how the indexing revolution has altered the basic premise of who wins and loses on Wall Street,” Ritholtz wrote.

He called the rise of BlackRock, Vanguard Group and State Street a good thing for investors, retirement accounts and labor, and said it “has dramatically tilted the field in the favor of Main Street against Wall Street, from the big institutions that Senator Sanders despises toward the small investors who make up much of his core base and audience.”

By design, through passive indexing, these companies are major shareholders in virtually the entire market, Ritholtz added. “They have bulked up not through nefarious means, but rather, by providing better long-term performance and at a lower price. It is the opposite of obscene — it is a low-cost, tax-efficient, super productive way to invest for the future,” he wrote.

Actually, each has a valid point.  Per Copilot:

…Bernie Sanders recently highlighted a concerning trend in the financial world. He pointed out that just three Wall Street firms—BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street—currently manage an astonishing $20.7 trillion in assets¹. To put this into perspective, that amount is nearly equal to the entire Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the United States and more than five times the GDP of Germany²³⁴. These firms are major shareholders in approximately 95% of S&P 500 companies, which raises questions about the concentration of economic and political power. This phenomenon, known as “horizontal shareholding,” has drawn criticism for potentially dampening competition in the stock market and affecting everyday investors¹. It’s a topic that merits further discussion and scrutiny.”

What Sanders didn’t say in that tweet is that many of those oligarchs and their financial interests demonstrably back Democrats.

Who says?

Congressman Seth Moulton (MA-D), who said in a recent interview that Democrats have become the party of the ultra-wealthy and ultra-poor.

What that means will be explored in Part VIII after the following news items. The multi-trillion-dollar question on American’s minds as the general elections are now just over 2 months away is who is the real threat to democracy in America? It’s your future. Be properly informed. The reason that so many billions are spent on elections is because trillions of dollars are at stake. But one need look no further than the previous point. Both major parties, and several of the minor party candidates, are saying that the future of the American Republic, which they call a democracy, is at stake. Here at MHProNews, we have long provided “News through the lens of manufactured homes and factory-built housing.” ^© which features Industry News, Tips, and Views Pros Can Use” ^© where “We Provide, You Decide.” ^©

Part I- Per the Daily Signal to MHProNews

Commentary

Young Americans Are ‘Spiraling’ Downward

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge.

America’s Hometown Newspaper finally noticed young Americans are screwed.

A few days ago, USA Today wrote an article asking why millennials and Gen Z are “spiraling, partying hard, and blowing their savings.”

I’ve mentioned in previous videos how young Americans are doom-spending their way to financial oblivion amid low-paying jobs, a half-decade of transitory inflation, and half-a-million dollars for a starter home.

USA Today quotes twentysomethings admitting there are no jobs and they can’t save any money but they’re “just kind of letting the days go by, bouncing from job to job, partying, and just kind of acting like everything will work out.”

As a Washington Post editor puts it, millennials and Gen Z are just “embracing an ethos of chaos.”

Alas, it’s not chaos; it’s despair.

Recently, the National Association of Colleges reported that starting salaries for new college grads are $68,000. That sounds good, but after Bidenflation, it’s about $50,000 in pre-pandemic terms.

Keep in mind, to get that $50,000, you’ve got to take on, according to a new study, $300,000 in debt for the average bachelor’s degree.

That comes to four-and-a-half years’ salary at $68,000. Assuming you don’t spend a dime.

It’s also $30,000 less than college students expected during school, according to CNBC, suggesting colleges are intentionally inflating expectations to sucker them in.

Of course, it was a whole different world for the baby boomers chucking at the chaos.

In 1970, starting salaries for college grads, adjusting for inflation to convert to today’s dollars, were $83,000.

In other words, they’re actually down in 55 years. We’re going backward.

Meanwhile, college in 1970 cost $1,240 per year—this was before government got into the student loan game.

Adjusting for inflation, that’s about eight times cheaper than today.

In other words, in 1970, it cost you a half-year salary for the entire bachelor’s degree. Now, it’s almost five years’ salary.

Meanwhile, of course, the price of homes—the main vehicle for Americans to build their life savings and to start a family—have become a joke for the young.

According to the Federal Reserve, the median house now costs $412,000, which is seven-and-a-half times that college graduate’s starting wage. It’s more like 15 times the average salary of a blue-collar worker.

In 1970, the median home cost $24,000, which was two-and-a-half times the starting wage for a college grad and closer to five times blue-collar wages.

So, wages are down. College costs nine times more. And houses cost between seven-and-a-half and 15 times annual salary.

Forget embracing chaos, the chaos is embracing them.

So, what’s next?

The USA Today article, helpfully, provides a solution: mental health counseling. Not a joke.

Some more useful solutions might include slashing government spending so inflation stops and there’s some money left over for small businesses to create full-time jobs instead of gig work.

Lower inflation means lower interest rates, which lowers housing costs.

And getting government out of college loans would bring prices back in line with the boomer utopia they broke.

We’re setting up the next generation to fail. Few of them understand what’s even happening. Instead, they vote for media-approved soundbites while partying their way to financial oblivion.

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

(…or MHProNews…)

Part II – Per the WND News Center to MHProNews on the Topic of Climate Change at the DNC is the Following, which cites the left-leaning New York Times and Washington Post

Here’s why team Harris isn’t peddling Democrat climate panic this election

‘No one is buying’ the save-the-planet ‘claptrap anymore’

Harris cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate to secure the 2022 passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Biden’s signature climate bill. While its price tag has ballooned from initial estimates and some contend that the bill has actually worsened inflation, the IRA unleashed hundreds of billions of dollars of private and public spending on green energy and manufacturing projects.

The Biden-Harris administration touts that investment as evidence that its domestic agenda is working.

“The climate activists in the Democrat Party have finally realized that no one is buying their ‘climate emergency’ claptrap anymore or their claims of 5, 10, or 20 years left to ‘save the planet.’ Instead, they are pedaling a barrage of silly economic claims that somehow pouring hundreds of billions and now trillions of dollars into government centrally planned projects,” Marc Morano, the publisher of Climate Depot, told the DCNF. “This new Democrat climate messaging, where they don’t mention climate, is part of the legacy of the Inflation Reduction Act, where local communities and certain states get unlimited federal funds poured into them via taxpayers to create a ‘green economy.'”

Kayleigh McEnany Says Kamala Harris’ Far-Left Gut Instincts Could Hurt Her Electoral Chances pic.twitter.com/GrvPK6Ivys

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) August 19, 2024

 

Len Foxwell, a Democratic strategist based in Maryland, said that the Harris campaign’s lack of attention to climate change and green energy issues is deliberate given her need to secure the support of a broad coalition if she is to win in November.

“First and foremost, Kamala Harris’ responsibility in this race is to win it. And to do so, she has to present her priorities in a way that resonates with those who are concerned about the economy and frustrated with their own financial situations. Specifically, she has to emphasize the opportunities that exist for better jobs, higher wages and long-term cost savings for the ratepayers,” Foxwell told the DCNF. “This is particularly imperative when discussing renewable energy investment, because the upfront costs tend to be considerable and the financial benefits to the middle class are largely speculative.”

As the Democratic candidate for the presidency, Harris “has to communicate her vision and values in a way that attracts the broadest possible coalition,” though it remains to be seen how she would actually govern if elected given uncertainty about the future balance of power in Congress, according to Foxwell. Harris and her team must take care to not propose policies that would increase the cost of living for middle class Americans, which would be “third rail” politics given how concerned people are about the economy, he added.

The Harris campaign did not respond immediately to a request for comment.

This story originally was published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

 

Part III Per left-leaning Glenn Greenwald, in an email to MHProNews on 8.23.2024 is the following on the DNC

Obamas Warn America of Perils of Wealth and Privilege; DNC Remains a Dissidence-Free Affair …

Tonight, there are many inspiring sermons coming from the podium of the Democratic National Convention, as you might expect, but none more moving than the two speeches delivered on Tuesday night by former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle. Both of them warned of the evils of greed, of massive wealth accumulation and wealth disparities, and especially those who seek fame and fortune. Michelle specifically told the story of how her mother always taught her to look with suspicion, unquote “folks who take more than they need” and she said, most of us do not enjoy what she called the affirmative action of generational wealth.

The point of all of this, needless to say, is to tell Americans what the Democratic Party represents, what the Obama legacy represents and what the values and character are of those who lead the party. One problem, of course, is that both Obamas, since leaving the White House, in early 2009, have lived the exact lives which their lectures were designed to denounce. They are now worth hundreds of millions of dollars. They jetted in into Chicago from one of their several $15 million sprawling estates around the country, or, more likely, from the yacht of one of their many billionaire friends off the south of France or in the Caribbean. That’s to say nothing of the cavalcade of privileged vessels – the Pritzkers and the Soroses and the Kennedys – who are the living, breathing embodiment of generational wealth and taking more than one needs and they were dominating the podium and the party.

It’s also to say nothing of the massive corporations and hedge fund billionaires who have always funded that party, at least since the Clinton years, and still do. And then there are the party’s deeply anti-democratic practices, which stood in stark contrast to Michelle Obama’s announcement that the Democratic Party, unlike the other party, does not cheat to ensure that it gets the results that it wants in an election. So, it’s really worth examining what this party actually is by comparing it to the self-serving image the Obamas created of both that party and of themselves.

Then: At last month’s Republican National Convention, several prominent speakers ascended to the stage to deliver speeches full of criticisms of deviations from the Republican establishment’s ideology, such as the speeches by David Sacks and Tucker Carlson in primetime, both of which ranted against US funding of the war in Ukraine and the neocon doctrine of endless war generally. The contrast with the DNC could not be any starker. Everything about the organization of this convention is designed – like the party itself – to enforce strict conformity and lockstep ideas, to the point that the party will not even allow a single Palestinian-American to ascend to the podium and speak, even if they promise, as they are doing, to say nothing other than to heap praise on Kamala Harris. Michael Tracey has been covering the convention on the ground for us, as you probably know, and we will show you some of how this dissent is being purged. …”

 

Part IV Per the Daily Signal to MHProNews. Like the above from Greenwald, and others that follow in the next few items, the commentary is his.

Commentary

Backstabbing Behind the Scenes at the Democratic Convention

Josh Hammer | August 23, 2024

Josh Hammer, a syndicated columnist, is senior editor-at-large at left-leaning Newsweek and a research fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation. He also is counsel and policy adviser for the Internet Accountability Project and contributing editor for Anchoring Truths.

No one is buying what Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Democratic Party are selling these days.

Earlier this week, on the opening night of the demonic confab in Chicago that Democrats call their national convention, the outgoing commander in chief explicitly denied that he was “angry at all those people” who said he should “step down” following his catastrophic faceplant at the June presidential debate.

There is not a single soul who actually believes this. For weeks following the debate, while the corporate media and Democrat elites circled like piranhas, the White House defiantly stood its ground and insisted it wasn’t going anywhere.

Biden eventually caved, but it beggars belief that he is not angry at those very Democrats who shivved him in the back and then forced him to read his own political eulogy—a screeching, bitter rant—on national television. No one is buying it, Joe.

On the second night of their satanic summit, Democrats heard from dyed-in-the-wool communist Bernie Sanders. Sanders, who honeymooned in the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War and flew a literal hammer-and-sickle communist flag in his old mayoral office, is a leading kingmaker in today’s Democratic Party.

At one point during his speech, Sanders intoned: “I want you all to remember where we were three-and-a-half years ago.”

Do Democrats really want to compare the actual track records of Donald Trump and Biden? Before COVID-19 hampered Trump’s final year in office, Russia didn’t invade Ukraine, Hamas didn’t massacre Israelis, the economy didn’t enter a formal recession, inflation didn’t reach a four-decade high, millions of unvetted illegal aliens didn’t flood into the country, and America was a net exporter of energy.

No one is buying this one either, commie.

Later on Tuesday, conventioneers heard from the two supreme titans who truly control today’s radical Democratic Party: Barack and Michelle Obama. Barack and Michelle tried to gin up artificial enthusiasm for Harris by recapturing the good ol’ days of 2008-era magic of “hope” and “yes we can!”

No sentient human being could plausibly nod along to a comparison between Barack Obama and Harris. Shared far-left politics and general swarthiness aside, the talented orator Obama does not in any way resemble the dimwitted California cackler-in-chief who is less popular than venereal disease and was only installed as Democrats’ presidential nominee following Uncle Joe’s bloodless coup due to a forced hand and lack of any other viable option.

In his speech, Obama also referenced how tapping his “friend” Biden as his 2008 running mate was one of his “best” decisions.

Really, how stupid do they think we are?

Obama, although he didn’t have the courage to publicly call for it, was—along with Nancy Pelosi—a leading plotter of Biden’s fateful July coup. Indeed, Biden himself didn’t even stick around for Obama’s harangue; he had already jetted off for sunny California.

Harris also skipped town for Milwaukee the night of Obama’s prime-time Chicago speech, apparently in order to not risk offending Biden. As Fox News senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich reported based on a close source, the “Obamas are still not on the White House good side.” Nor should they be! No one is buying this ridiculous pretense of a grand Democratic Party kumbaya.

Finally, large swathes of the Democrats’ diabolical Windy City conclave were dedicated to celebrating the legacy of Biden, a purported “patriot” and “good man” who put “country above party” by “selflessly” bowing out of the presidential race.

This entire narrative is a lie. Biden was not “selfless” or “noble” in gently “bowing out”—he was ruthlessly couped by his partisan peers. Democrats, unlike Republicans, believe in nothing so much as they believe in doing whatever it takes to win. There was nothing whatsoever voluntary or selfless about this—just one party doing whatever it felt it had to do to maximize its chances of victory against an opponent it has falsely lambasted as a unique threat to “our democracy.”

As for the notion that Biden is a “good man”—this, too, is a lie. Indeed, it has been one of the biggest, most frequently repeated lies of my entire life. Biden is not a good man. Let’s ask Mary Ellen Bork whether Biden, who teamed up with Mary Jo Kopechne murderer Ted Kennedy to so brutally savage her late husband Robert’s Supreme Court nomination that “bork” entered the English lexicon as a verb, is a “good man.”

We might also ask Clarence Thomas whether Biden, who did more than anyone else to spread Anita Hill’s slanderous lies, is a “good man.”

Also, can any father in America actually look at Hunter Biden and conclude that Joe was a good father?

If nothing else, no one is buying that. ##

 

Part V From the Daily Signal to MHProNews is the following

As a preface to the article below, MHProNews provided prior reports on the DNC at the two links here and here.

News

10 Takeaways From Final Night of Democratic National Convention

Rob Bluey | August 22, 2024

Democrats gathered Thursday night in Chicago to hear a bevy of speakers followed by Vice President Kamala Harris’ formal acceptance of their nomination for president to close out the party’s convention.

The weeklong coronation of Harris, who replaced President Joe Biden as Democrats’ presidential nominee just one month ago, commenced with a party-like atmosphere that featured music and dancing at the United Center.

All week, organizers of the Democratic National Convention presented a show of unity despite underlying divisions in the party, most notably on the Israel-Hamas war. The same spirit filled the air Thursday night as delegates and other attendees awaited the most important speech of Harris’ political career.

Shortly after the opening ceremonies, Democrats offered the stage to two teachers union bosses, followed by members of Congress and the Rev. Al Sharpton, the controversial activist and commentator.

Here are some of the more notable highlights from the fourth and final night of the DNC, which finally managed to wrap up before midnight EDT.

1. The Main Event: Harris’ ‘Unlikely Journey’ to Democrat Nominee

“Let’s get to business,” Harris told the crowd in an attempt to quiet the raucous applause greeting her arrival onstage at United Center about 10:35 p.m. EDT.

Harris proceeded to acknowledge her husband, Doug Emhoff, whom she married exactly 10 years ago to the day. She then thanked Biden and his wife, first lady Jill Biden, who were not present.

Harris talked about the “unlikely journey” that led her to the party’s nomination, recalling stories about her parents and the lessons she learned as a child of a single mother after they split up.

The major “vibe” I’m picking up is “awkward.” #DNC pic.twitter.com/CBiuICdvBS

— Tyler O’Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) August 23, 2024

“My mother was a brilliant, 5-foot-tall brown woman with an accent,” Harris said. “And as the eldest child, I saw how the world would sometimes treat her. But my mother never lost her cool. She was tough, courageous, a trailblazer in the fight for women’s health. And she taught Maya and me a lesson that Michelle [Obama] mentioned the other night: She taught us to never complain about injustice, but do something about it.”

Harris said her parents’ involvement in the civil rights movement inspired her to pursue a career in law. She recalled that an abusive relationship between her best friend and the friend’s stepfather convinced her to become a prosecutor.

“I believe everyone has a right to safety, dignity, and justice,” Harris said. “In our system of justice, a harm against any one of us is a harm against all of us.”

2. Harris Speaks Broadly About Policy Agenda, Skips Specifics

After sharing her personal biography, Harris pivoted to policy issues. She touted her record as California attorney general, U.S. senator, and vice president and argued that she would be a better choice than returning Trump as president.

“This election is not only the most important of our lives, it is one of the most important in the life of our nation,” she said. “In many ways, Donald Trump is an unserious man. But the consequences of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious.”

Harris took Trump to task for his leadership style as president and his behavior in the aftermath of the disputed 2020 election, then warned about his agenda should voters elect him again.

“We know what a second Trump term would look like. It’s all laid out in ‘Project 2025,’ written by his closest advisers,” she warned.

Harris accused Trump of trying to cut Social Security and Medicare, seeking to repeal Obamacare, and wanting to eliminate the Department of Education.

“America, we are not going back,” she said to applause. “We are charting a new way forward to a future with a strong and growing middle class because we know a strong middle class has always been critical to America’s success.”

Kamala Harris warns Trump will “jail journalists.” Trump was president, no journalists were jailed. Meanwhile, Kamala was California AG, and @daviddaleiden‘s house was raided while Harris prepared to prosecute him for exposing Planned Parenthood.‼️ https://t.co/7lbpXShnLt pic.twitter.com/nKmYHHUgKz

— Tyler O’Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) August 23, 2024

 

Citing her own upbringing in a middle-class family, Harris made a direct appeal to this voting bloc, who could swing the election to either candidate particularly in states such as Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Harris also devoted part of her speech to abortion, an issue where she and Democrats hold a sizable advantage over Trump and Republicans. She accused her opponent of wanting to limit access to birth control and enact a nationwide abortion ban—although Trump holds neither position.

“Simply put,” Harris said, “they are out of their minds. And one must ask: Why exactly is it that they don’t trust women? Well, we trust women. And when Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom, as president of the United States, I will proudly sign it into law.”

On border security, a problem that Harris failed to fix as the White House’s “border czar,” she promised to “reform our broken immigration system” and “create an earned pathway to citizenship.” Notably, she listed both before saying she would secure the border.

🤔Why do Kamala Harris’ “freedoms” amount to limiting freedom? She wants to undermine the freedom
1⃣to own a firearm in the name of “safety”
2⃣to live according to traditional family values in the name of “pride”
3⃣to drive a car in the name of saving the climate pic.twitter.com/uOukKNm4r1

— Tyler O’Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) August 23, 2024

Harris devoted parts of her speech to two foreign wars that began on her watch as vice president, boasting that she warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about Russia’s invasion in 2022 and is working “around the clock” to bring an end to the fighting in Gaza in the Israel-Hamas war.

She surprised some by explicitly referring to Hamas, the elected government of the Gaza Strip, as a terrorist organization. The war began after Hamas terrorists went on a rampage of torture, rape, and murder Oct. 7, leaving 1,200 dead and taking 250 hostages in southern Israel.

“I will always stand up for Israel’s right to defend itself and I will always ensure Israel has the ability to defend itself,” she said. “At the same time, what has happened in Gaza over the past 10 months is devastating. So many innocent lives lost. Desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety, over and over again. The scale of suffering is heartbreaking.”

3. Leaders of Teachers Unions Rally Against Trump-Vance Ticket

Dressed in white blazers, the two teachers union leaders took the stage to warn delegates about the dangers posed by former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, his running mate on the GOP ticket.

National Education Association President Becky Pringle and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten made partisan appeals in keeping with their unions’ one-sided political giving to Democrats.

“Donald Trump and JD Vance are not just wrong—they’re dangerous. It’s all right there in Project 2025. They will shut down the Department of Education,” said Pringle, who leads the larger of the two teachers unions. “We are coming together to say, ‘Not on our watch.’”

Launched by The Heritage Foundation two years ago, Project 2025 grew to a coalition of 110 conservative organizations that developed a transition plan for the next presidential administration. Unlike some of the misstatements and lies about it, Project 2025 does call for the Education Department’s elimination—an idea endorsed by Trump.

Weingarten, whose controversial statements during the COVID-19 pandemic drew the ire of conservatives and parents alike, pledged her allegiance to the Democrat ticket.

“One of the first lessons my students taught me was you got to walk the walk,” she said. “That means Donald Trump and JD Vance can’t claim they’re pro-child while gutting funding for public schools. That means that being pro-family means we support access to good union jobs, affordable housing, health care, and higher education. That’s what Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are fighting for—and we are all in.”

 

4. Wisconsin Senator Misrepresents Trump’s Position on Social Security

Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., began her remarks by talking about the two grandparents who raised her as a child. It was her attempt at appealing to senior citizens—and casting doubt on Trump’s pledges to protect Social Security.

Dating to his first presidential run in 2016, Trump repeatedly has stated his opposition to cutting Social Security benefits.

“Donald Trump was asked what he would do about Social Security and Medicare and he said, “There’s a lot you can do in terms of cutting.’ He’s talking about cutting Social Security and Medicare while giving a huge new tax break to billionaires and corporations,” Baldwin said.

There’s just one problem—that’s not exactly what Trump said. In fact, he never mentioned Social Security or Medicare by name.

In a March 11 interview on CNBC, Trump said: “There is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting and in terms of also the theft and the bad management of entitlements.”

The term entitlements may reference any number of government programs; entitlements have grown in recent years to encompass an even greater share of the federal budget.

For his part, Trump clarified his position by stating: “I will never do anything that will jeopardize or hurt Social Security or Medicare.”

5. Sharpton Targets Trump, Highlights Case of Central Park 5 

Delivering a divisive speech filled with appeals to several identity groups, the Rev. Al Sharpton began his remarks by taking aim at Trump.

“Donald Trump was a fellow New Yorker I’ve known for 40 years,” Sharpton told the crowd. “Only once, once in that time, did he take a position on racial issues. He spent a small fortune on full-page ads calling for the execution of five innocent young teenagers.”

Sharpton was referring to the so-called Central Park Five, a group of black men convicted of beating and raping a woman in 1989. They were released in 2002 when another man confessed to the crime. Following his speech, Sharpton invited four of the convicted men to the stage to make brief remarks.

At the time of the 1989 incident, Trump purchased newspaper ads with this headline: “BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY. BRING BACK OUR POLICE!”

Recent polls show black men are gravitating toward Trump, potentially a deciding factor in the election’s outcome. Sharpton didn’t mince words.

“All Donald Trump has been consistent about is making himself richer and sowing division to get that done,” Sharpton said. “This man sat right here in Chicago a few weeks ago refusing to apologize for claims that migrants were taking black jobs. Well, in November we are going to show him when blacks do their job.”

Sharpton, at one point, mispronounced Harris’ first name, a mistake repeated by several other speakers at the Democratic National Convention despite partisans’ accusations that anyone who does that is making a “disrespectful” if not a “racist” remark.

 

6. Sen. Bob Casey Complains About Cost of Diapers

Democrats hold a one-seat advantage in the U.S. Senate and face a tough map to defend in November. Although three incumbents stayed home and kept their distance from Chicago, others ventured to the Windy City for high-profile speaking spots Thursday night.

One of them, Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., began his remarks by complaining about inflation, specifically the cost of diapers.

“In just six months, a box of diapers went up $15,” Casey said. “The corporations say your prices are up only because their costs are up. They’re selling you a lie. It’s in the bag with the diapers. Prices are up because these corporations are scheming to drive them up.”

Reminiscent of Harris’ widely mocked economic speech last week—in which the vice president also noted rising prices since Biden became president—Casey blamed “faceless wholesalers.”

👖🔥Sen. Bob Casey says “The corporations say your prices are up only because their costs are up. They’re selling you a lie… Prices are up because these corporations are scheming to drive them up.” He calls this “greedflation.” He’s flat-out wrong. https://t.co/vrJBqcRyrr pic.twitter.com/meiOjjeR0j

— Tyler O’Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) August 23, 2024

 

“They’re the ones who are extorting families at the checkout counter,” he said, without referencing the trillions of dollars in government spending that sparked inflation during the Biden-Harris administration.

Last week, Harris endorsed Casey’s bill, the Price Gouging Prevention Act, which would empower the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general to combat what Democrats call “greedflation.”

7. Senate Hopefuls Make Their Pitch

Two members of the U.S. House of Representatives made their appeals to the party faithful for jobs in Congress’ upper chamber.

Two-term Rep. Colin Allred is attempting to unseat the Republican incumbent, Sen. Ted Cruz, in reliably red Texas. Rep. Elissa Slotkin is hoping to replace retiring Sen. Debbie Stabenow in Michigan.

Both lawmakers are in their 40s and considered rising stars in their party.

Allred, a former NFL player who beat a Republican incumbent in 2018, faces a tougher path in November with Trump on the ballot. That didn’t stop him from talking tough Thursday night.

“In the NFL, we had a term for guys like Donald Trump and my opponent, Ted Cruz: Me guys,” Allred said. “You know the type: talk a big game but only care about themselves. You don’t want to be stuck with them at a barbecue.”

Allred cited three issues in his campaign for Senate: restoring “reproductive freedom,” securing the border, and protecting Medicare and Social Security.

>>> Related: Allred vs. Cruz: 2 Opposing Visions for Texas’ Border With Mexico

Like Allred, Slotkin won election to Congress in 2018. She previously served as a CIA analyst and Defense Department official.

Slotkin focused her remarks on national security, claiming the presidential election was a choice between retreating or leading on the world stage.

“Trump wants to take us backwards,” she said. “He admires dictators a lot. He treats our friends as adversaries and our adversaries as friends. But our vision is based on our values—the values that took us to the shores of Normandy and helped us win the Cold War.”

8. Warren Contrasts Harris, Trump in Appeal to Working-Class Voters

Wiping tears from her eyes amid sustained applause, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., portrayed Harris as a champion for everyday Americans in contrast to Trump.

“You know what I love best about Kamala Harris?” Harris said. “Kamala Harris can’t be bought and she can’t be bossed around.”

Warren, who led the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau before her 2012 election to the U.S. Senate, spoke of her time working with Harris, then California’s attorney general, in the aftermath of the 2008 recession.

While they were “protecting families,” Warren said, Trump was “scamming students at Trump University and trying to make money off people losing their homes.”

Taking a page from Trump’s populist playbook, Warren argued that Harris would be a better president for lowering costs, taking on Wall Street and drug companies, and going after corporate monopolies.

Warren invoked Trump’s recent conviction in New York three times in the span of her five-minute speech, trying to make the case he couldn’t be trusted.

“Groceries, gas, housing, health care, taxes, abortion,” she said, listing some of the top issues of the 2024 presidential campaign. “Trust Donald Trump and JD Vance to look out for your family? Shoot, I wouldn’t trust them to move my couch.”

9. Stars Come Out on Kamala’s Big Night

The (Dixie) Chicks sang an interesting acapella rendition of the national anthem, comedian D.L. Hughley cracked jokes, and actresses Kerry Washington and Eva Longoria made appearances Thursday night in what has become a star-studded event in Chicago.

In another musical moment, pop singer Pink sang her 2017 hit “What About Us” with daughter Willow Sage.

It’s no secret that Hollywood favors Harris, a California native, but Democrats have done their part to showcase some household names during convention week.

Just one night after former President Bill Clinton repeatedly mispronounced Harris’ first name, Washington was joined on stage by the candidate’s two nieces to lead the crowd in a chant of “COMMA-LA.”

“It’s come to my attention there are some folks who struggle—or pretend to struggle—with the proper pronunciation of our future president’s name,” Washington said. “Confusion is understandable. Disrespect is not. Tonight, we are going to help everyone get it right.”

Later in the evening, former “Desperate Housewives” star Longoria predicted that women would be the deciding factor in the Nov. 5 election.

 

10. Democrats’ Favorite Republican: Adam Kinzinger

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who represented Illinois as a Republican, got a prime speaking slot to make the case for Harris.

“I was a Republican for 12 years in Congress, and I still hold onto the label,” Kinzinger said. “I never thought I’d be here. But listen, you never thought you’d see me here, did you?”

“I’ve learned something about the Democratic Party, and I want to let my fellow Republicans in on the secret: The Democrats are as patriotic as us.”

Kinzinger, who served on House Democrats’ committee investigating the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, cited that fateful day in his remarks. He called Trump “too fragile, too vain, and too weak to accept defeat.”

Kinzinger’s remarks were among the most pointed—and personal—comments about Trump of all the DNC speakers Thursday night.

“Donald Trump is a weak man pretending to be strong. He is a small man pretending to be big. He’s a faithless man pretending to be righteous. He’s a perpetrator playing the victim,” Kinzinger said.

The former Republican lawmaker didn’t mention Trump’s narrow escape from an assassin’s bullet July 13.

A passionate supporter of Ukraine in its war with Russia, Kinzinger also chided Trump for his past comments about Russian President  Vladimir Putin and mocked Vance for his views on that war. ##

 

VI From the WND News Center to MHProNews

WND

RFK suspends campaign, throws support behind President Donald Trump

Disagrees with Dems ‘on most existential issues: censorship, war and chronic diseases’

By Bob Unruh | August 23, 2024

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a member of a family with decades of adherence to the Democrat party in America, on Friday suspended his campaign and threw his support behind President Donald Trump because he simply could not agree with the nation’s current Democrat party.

He criticized the party for abandoning – in fact, trying to destroy – democracy with a government-tech censorship campaign that he blamed for working to try to keep him off the ballot and to put President Donald Trump in jail.

RFK Jr: “The only thing that will save our country and our children is if we choose to love our kids more than we hate each other.”

— WorldNetDaily (@worldnetdaily) August 23, 2024

 

RFK Jr: Ultimately the future is in God’s hands.

“This is a spiritual journey for me. I reached this decision through deep prayer…and hard nosed logic.”

— WorldNetDaily (@worldnetdaily) August 23, 2024

 

🚨‼️ RFK Jr. confirms that Trump has invited him to join his cabinet if he is elected. This is YUGE! pic.twitter.com/4AZmNdVuks

— WorldNetDaily (@worldnetdaily) August 23, 2024

 

RFK Jr. encourages battleground state voters to vote for @realDonaldTrump in November. He has already begun removing his name from the ballot in 10 swing states so as to not spoil Trump’s chances to win the presidency. pic.twitter.com/FanYcnpGjU

— WorldNetDaily (@worldnetdaily) August 23, 2024

 

He said Trump’s commitment to work to end the Ukraine-Russia war is enough, alone, for him to support this year’s GOP nominee.

He said Trump has asked him to help in a new Trump administration.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: “We just had a very nice endorsement from RFK JR!” pic.twitter.com/yNmooMWGo4

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 23, 2024

 

Kennedy flatly said that he disagrees with Trump on several issues. He is supporting Trump not because he is a perfect candidate, but because he is the best available candidate in the 2024 election cycle.  The behaviors of the Harris-Walz ticket is known, because she has embraced the behaviors of the Biden-Harris administration. Most Americans were financially better off under Trump than they are under Biden-Harris. It is just that simple. Everything else can be a smokescreen. Virtually all of the third-party candidates have said that the Democrats are a threat to democracy, and they are attempting to project onto others what they themselves are guilty of doing. They often palter, project, deploy doublespeak and doublethink, and use a variety of manipulative measures. That doesn’t mean that others are perfect, there are no perfect candidates. Despite his objections to the 2020 election, Trump left office. Had he truly been a ‘threat to Democracy’ he certainly didn’t show it when he left, did he? The story of January 6 is often misunderstood, because it is misrepresented. The evidence of corruption under Biden Harris is stunning (see below). Some of us, like Kennedy Jr., grew up in Democratic households. It may be difficult to break with that past, but if Kennedy can do it, and millions of others are on that journey, others can take hope and inspiration in that too. Rep. Moulton said Democrats have become the party of the ultra-wealthy. Trump is a former Democrat. He challenged the Bush wing of the Republican party and beat it to transform the GOP into a new organization that is being rebuilt around the middle class, working class, retirees, and ‘everyday Americans.’ MHProNews has reported on these issues or years. Only the truth will set people free. See the related reports to learn more. ##

Part VIII

Our Daily Business News on MHProNews stock market recap which features our business-daily at-a-glance update of over 2 dozen manufactured housing industry stocks.

NOTICE: following the TPG deal with CAPREIT, TPG has been added to our tracked stocks list below.

This segment of the Daily Business News on MHProNews is the recap of yesterday evening’s market report at the closing bell, so that investors can see-at-glance the type of topics may have influenced other investors. Our format includes our signature left (CNN Business) and right (Newsmax) ‘market moving’ headlines for a more balanced report.

The macro market moves graphics below provide context and comparisons for those invested in or tracking manufactured housing connected equities. Meaning, you can see ‘at a glance’ how manufactured housing connected firms do compared to other segments of the broader equities market.

• In minutes a day, readers can get a good sense of significant or major events while keeping up with the trends that may be impacting manufactured housing connected investing.

Headlines from left-of-center CNN Business – 8.23.2024

• Dow closes more than 450 points higher after Fed’s Powell hints rate cuts are coming
• ‘The time has come’: The Fed just sent a crucial message about its next move
• A veteran reporter was murdered outside his home. Now his newspaper is tasked with covering the alleged killer’s trial
• Trains sit idle at a Canadian Pacific Kansas City rail yard in Smiths Falls, Ont.
• Canadian government forces rail lockout to end
• Fuel storage tanks at a Halliburton Co. facility in Port Fourchon, Louisiana.
• Halliburton confirms a cyberattack forced it to take its systems offline
• CEO of Taco Bell Corp. Brian Niccol rings the NASDAQ Opening Bell at NASDAQ MarketSite on June 10, 2015 in New York City.
• Starbucks is giving its new CEO Brian Niccol a private jet to commute between his California home and Seattle office
• A logo sign outside of the headquarters of RealPage in Richardson, Texas.
• Real estate company helped to artificially inflate rents across America, Justice Department alleges
• Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks at a news conference on July 31 in Washington, DC.
• Powell just suggested interest rate cuts are coming. What everyone wants to know now
• GM’s Cruise will offer robotaxis on Uber’s platform starting next year
• New Subway series sandwiches.
• Subway announces a new price for footlongs as it enters the value menu wars
• Shein reveals child labor cases at its suppliers
• Newsmax chief said in 2020 ‘we have no evidence’ election was rigged, but aired those claims anyway, Smartmatic alleges
• Peloton finally did something it hasn’t done in years
• A gold bar is now worth $1 million
• Nestle replaces CEO Schneider amid recent struggles
• McDonald’s has become a powerful symbol for Democrats
• Canadian freight railroads shut down, dealing a potential blow to North America’s economy
• Google agrees to first-in-the-nation deal to fund California newsrooms, but journalists are calling it a disaster
• Oil giant Halliburton hit by apparent cyberattack disrupting systems
• Who was Mike Lynch, the tech entrepreneur among the dead after a superyacht sank?
• Fake celebrity endorsements become latest weapon in misinformation wars, sowing confusion ahead of 2024 election
• Talking politics at work is a double-edged sword, Gallup survey finds

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Headlines from right-of-center Newsmax – 8.23.2024

• Backing Trump, RFK Jr. Shreds Democrats for Abandoning Democracy
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. crucified the Democratic Party during a speech on Friday to announce that he’s ending his independent presidential campaign and endorsing Republican nominee Donald Trump. Said Kennedy, “Instead of showing us her substance and character, the DNC and its media organs engineered a surge of popularity of Vice President Harris based on … well, nothing.” [Full Story]
• Related Stories
• RFK Jr. to Endorse Donald Trump for President
• Israel at War
• Evacuation Orders Have Displaced 90 Percent of Gaza Residents: UN
• WH Insists It Is Making Progress on Gaza Cease-Fire
• Soldier Killed in Gaza, Bringing IDF Death Toll to 695
• Hezbollah Missiles Hit IDF Post in Northern Israel
• Pentagon Hits Houthis for Causing ‘Environmental Disaster’
• Suspected Houthi Arms Dealers Selling Weapons on X
• Ernst: IRS Refuses Answers on Pro-Palestine Orgs
• 600 American, Canadian Jews Move to Israel in 1 Week
• Israeli West Bank Strike on Tulkarm Camp Kills 3
• IDF Minister: Hamas’s Rafah Brigade Has Been Defeated
• Newsmax TV
• Jamal Holley: Dems Not Same Party RFK Jr Grew Up With
• Timmons: Harris Ignored Afghanistan in Speech
• Janiyah Thomas: Media Frenzy Around Harris Fake
• Danielle Alvarez: ‘Would Be an Honor’ to Have RFK Jr.’s Support
• Gov. Newsom: US Economy ‘Envy’ of World
• Sheriff: Harris Campaign Ad ‘Deceptive’
• Johnson: Media Covers For DNC Lies
• Bergman Walz ‘Embellished’ His Record
• Newsfront
• 16 State AGs Sue Biden WH Over Amnesty for Illegals
• Attorneys General from Texas, Idaho and 14 other states filed suit against the Biden-Harris administration on Friday over a new policy that would allow 1 million illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship without having to first leave the United States…. [Full Story]
• Stocks Surge While Treasury Yields Retreat on Fed Signal
• Wall Street and global shares jumped Friday toward all-time highs, [Full Story]
• RFK Jr. Withdraws Presidential Bid in Arizona
• Independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on [Full Story]
• Related
• RFK Jr. to Endorse Donald Trump for President
• Rasmussen Poll: Independents Help Trump Lead Harris
• Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump leads Democrat Kamala [Full Story]
• Related
• Trump: I Don’t Need Intel Briefings
• RFK Jr.’s VP Shanahan: Dems Dread His Alliance With Trump
• Trump: Harris, Biden ‘Unleashed Deadly Plague of Migrant Crime’
• High Point Poll: Harris Leads Trump by 1 Point in N.C.
• UH/TSU Poll: Harris Closes Gap on Trump in Texas
• Dem Pollsters Warn of ‘Rosy’ Outlook in Harris’ Surge
• Secret Service Agents on Leave After Trump Shooting
• Multiple Secret Service agents from the Pittsburgh Field Office have [Full Story]
• Related
• Speaker Johnson: Secret Service Still Not Doing Enough
• Hawley: Whistleblower Raises Secret Service Issues
• Iranian Trump Hackers Viewed as Dangerous Experts
• The Iranian hacking team that compromised the campaign of Republican [Full Story]
• Related
• Iran Wants Trump Eliminated by Election Day
• Arizona Man Arrested for Alleged Threats Against Trump
• Trump Not Told About Arizona Manhunt
• Waltz Not Convinced Trump Shooter Acted Alone
• Trump: My Admin Will Be Great for Reproductive Rights
• Former President Donald Trump has been trying to moderate his stance [Full Story]
• Newsmax Broke Ratings Records in July
• Newsmax’s ratings and key metrics continue to be strong with July [Full Story]
• Fed’s Powell: ‘Time Has Come’ to Pivot on Interest Rates
• With inflation nearly defeated and the job market cooling, the [Full Story]
• Related
• Stocks Soar as Fed Chair Powell Signals Pivot on Rates
• US Job Market May Be Near Tipping Point: Economists
• Taiwan Could Be Loser in Japanese PM’s Departure
• Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s decision to step down as the head of [Full Story] | Platinum Article
• Former Pilot Who Tried to Kill Engines ‘Better For It’
• The former Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to shut off the engines of [Full Story]
• Indian PM Modi Meets Zelenskyy During Ukraine Visit
• Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr [Full Story]
• Related
• Ukraine Says it Has Recaptured Land in Kharkiv Region
• Russia Accuses Ukraine of Attempted Attack on Kursk Nuclear Plant
• Russia Suspends Ferry Service to Crimea After Ukrainian Port Attack
• Judge Tosses Case: Machine Gun Ban Unconstitutional
• A federal judge has dismissed charges against a Kansas man for [Full Story]
• US Issues Fresh Sanctions for Backing Russia’s War
• The U.S. issued fresh sanctions on various Chinese and Russian [Full Story]
• Dems Spoke for Middle Class, Partied Like Upper Class
• At the Democratic National Convention, speaker after speaker talked [Full Story]
• Trump-Backed Dahlstrom Drops Alaska House Bid
• Alaska Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom, who had been endorsed by former [Full Story]
• Harris Urging Voters to Chart ‘New Way Forward’ in Speech
• Kamala Harris’ convention-capping speech includes an appeal to voters [Full Story]
• Related
• Trump to Newsmax: Harris Lied During ‘Very General Speech’
• Gizzi: Dems Don’t Feel Sorry About Biden’s Exit
• DNC Applauds Parents of Hostage With ‘Bring Them Home’ Chants
• 50 GOP Military Vet Lawmakers Sign Letter Condemning Walz
• 22 Shootings, 6 Homicide Deaths in Chicago During DNC
• GOP Rips Dems’ Style Over Substance at Convention
• Ohio Law Would Allow Claiming of Unborn on Taxes
• Expecting parents would be allowed to claim “conceived children” as [Full Story]
• Woman Gets $165K in Emotional Support Parrot Case
• A woman who faced eviction from her New York co-op over her three [Full Story]
• Pentagon: Houthis Caused ‘Environmental Disaster’
• The Pentagon criticized the Houthi terrorists on Thursday for causing [Full Story]
• Report: Tim Walz Richer Than Net Worth Suggests
• Democrat vice presidential candidate Tim Walz’s pensions from his [Full Story]
• Asa Hutchinson to Teach Law at Univ. of Arkansas
• Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson will join the University of [Full Story]
• Trump Club Hosts Fundraiser for Jan. 6 Defendants
• A fundraiser for people charged in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack at the [Full Story]
• Dems Doubt Harris Would Pardon Hunter Biden
• Vice President Kamala Harris’ ascension to the role of [Full Story]
• Virginia Removes 6,303 Noncitizens from Voter Rolls
• An executive order from Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin removed 6,303 [Full Story]
• Justice Dept. Accuses RealPage of Driving Up Rents
• The U.S. Department of Justice and eight states sued RealPage Friday, [Full Story]
• Trump Mending Fences With Georgia Gov. Kemp
• Former President Donald Trump appears to be mending the fences with [Full Story]
• Last Body From Sunken Superyacht Found Off Sicily
• The Italian Coast Guard said the body of the final missing person who [Full Story]
• Grocery Stores Boost Donations Amid Dems’ Criticism
• The level of political donations from major food companies accepted [Full Story]
• China Uses Amazon Cloud to Get High-End US Chips, AI
• S tate-linked Chinese entities are using cloud services provided by [Full Story]
• Judge: EPA Must Release Chemical Approval Applications
• The Environmental Protection Agency must hand over records associated [Full Story]
• More Newsfront
• Finance
• Professor: Biden-Harris Regulations Cost Families $47K
• Biden-Harris administration regulations are on pace to cost the average American family $47,000, according to a University of Chicago economics professor…. [Full Story]
• COVID Tests Will Be Free Through Mail Order Again
• Federal Judges May Accept New 2020 Election Evidence
• The 15 Billionaires With a Net Worth of $100B-Plus
• Mercedes Schlapp: ‘Joy’? ‘Hope’? Try Communism
• More Finance
• Health
• Study: This Diet May Reduce Your Odds for COVID-19
• COVID cases have surged this summer, but a new study suggests that following the Mediterranean diet might spare you from infection. In a review published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One, Indonesian researchers discovered that the healthy eating regimen, which centers on…… [Full Story]
• COVID Tests Will Be Free Through Mail Order Again
• Experimental Drug Cut Hot Flashes By More Than Half
• Scientists Look to Stop Bird Flu Spreading in Cows
• Wegovy Cuts Heart Attack in Heart Failure Patients

 

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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 1: MHVille means manufactured housing industry, MHVille also means artificially smaller manufactured housing (MH) industry,
• 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.
• Note 3:
  

  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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