https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/11/07/congress/musks-trans-daughter-00188242
Musk said in a July interview that Wilson was “killed by the woke mind virus,” and that he had been “tricked” into authorizing gender-affirming care for her. In response to Musk’s comments, Wilson described her father as “cold,” “very quick to anger” and “narcissistic” in an interview with NBC News.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4979610-jan-6-defendants-trump-pardon/
President-elect Trump vowed on the campaign trail to pardon rioters accused of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as Congress certified the 2020 election win of his Democratic opponent.
“The moment we win, we will rapidly review the cases of every political prisoner unjustly victimized by the Harris regime, and I will sign their pardons on Day 1,” Trump said at a Wisconsin rally in September.
Now, Jan. 6 defendants and their attorneys are hoping he’ll make good on that promise.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/11/07/alam-sentenced-capitol-riot-jan6/
Alam was one of the first rioters to enter the Capitol, climbing through the window on the Upper West Terrace which had been broken open five minutes earlier by Dominic Pezzola, who was helping to lead the charge of the Proud Boys, prosecutors said. Once inside, he went through four floors of the Capitol, “entering offices, kicking a door, harassing officers, and ultimately ending up at the House Main Doors,” according to a sentencing brief filed by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Joseph S. Smith Jr. and Rebekah Lederer.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/putins-pals-gloat-over-his-cunning-play-to-help-trump-win/
Presidential elections in America were front and center in the Russian state-controlled media, due to the widespread belief that Donald Trump’s return will all but guarantee the success of the floundering Russian invasion of Ukraine. During his morning broadcast on channel Solovyov Live, host Sergey Karnaukhov noted, “The new era has started. We’ll see what happens next.”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/398695
American conservative political commentator says that the turning point of the election was when he accompanied former President Trump at the grave of the Lubavitch Rebbe.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/06/trump-netanyahu-victory-israel-middle-east
The other big Middle Eastern winner on Tuesday night was the Saudi monarchy, which has invested deeply in the Trump family. It now has a close ally in the White House, who will press for a Saudi-Israeli normalisation deal, to add to the “Abraham accords” with other Gulf states. Biden officials invested a huge amount of time and energy into trying to clinch a Saudi-Israeli agreement and suspected all along that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was waiting for a Trump presidency.
Even for the prince, however, it will not be straightforward to do a deal with Netanyahu at a time Gaza is being flattened and more than 43,000 Palestinians have been killed.
However, the hesitation may be temporary. The forces of convergence between the Gulf monarchies, and an increasingly illiberal US and Israel, are likely to prove stronger in the four years to come than concern for the plight of the Palestinians.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/06/netanyahu-israel-trump-president-gaza-lebanon-iran/
Mouin Rabbani, a nonresident fellow at Qatar’s Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies, called Trump “a wild card,” saying he might back controversial, but increasingly popular, far-right Israeli policies like annexation of Palestinian territory, but could also lose interest in the region.
“The difference between a Trump and Harris administration is that Harris has kind of a principled commitment to Israel, and everything is subordinate to that,” he said. “Whereas for Trump he couldn’t care less about Israel and the Palestinians or anything or anyone else, provided it serves his interests.”
For Netanyahu, who critics have long contended is driven by similar sense of self-interest, Trump’s victory is a personal triumph as well, according to Talshir, the political scientist.
“The orbit of populist leaders that Netanyahu and Trump belong to and lead together,” she said, and are “trying to take liberal democracies to their authoritarian ends.”
There is much discussion about reward for righteousness and punishment for sin in the gemora, However there is a category of the wicked which clearly indicates the lack of apparent justice in this world. That is those who are successful in spite of behavior and midos which typically discredit most human beings. They are those who are typically described in our society as having teflon coatings - nothing negative lowers their status
Berachos (07b) It is permitted to contend with the wicked in this world. For it is said: They that forsake the law praise the wicked, but such as keep the law contend with them. It has been taught to the same effect: R. Dosthai son of R. Mattun says: It is permitted to contend with the wicked in this world. For it is said: ‘They that forsake the law praise the wicked, etc.’ — Should somebody whisper to you: But is it not written: Contend not with evil-doers, neither be thou envious against them that work unrighteousness, then you may tell him: Only one whose conscience smites him says so. In fact, ‘Contend not with evil-doers’, means, to be like them; ‘neither be thou envious against them that work unrighteousness’, means, to be like them. And so it is said: Let not thy heart envy sinners, but be in the fear of the Lord all the day. But this is not so! For R. Isaac said: If you see a wicked man upon whom fortune is smiling, do not attack him. For it is said: His ways prosper at all times. And more than that, he is victorious in the court of judgment; for it is said: Thy judgments are far above out of his sight. And still more than that, he sees the discomfiture of his enemies; for it is said: As for all his adversaries, he puffs at them.
Megila (06b) If you see a wicked man being favored by fortune do not contend with him, as it says, Do not contend with evildoers. Nor is this all, but he may even prosper in his undertakings, as it says, His ways prosper at all times. Nor is this all, but he may even be declared right, as it says, Thy judgments are far above out of his sight. Nor is this all, but he may even triumph over his enemies, as it says, As for all his adversaries, he puffs at them.
Pesachim (112a) Strive to be on good terms with the man upon whom the hour smiles. R. Papa observed: That does not mean to buy from or to sell to him, but to enter into partnership with him. But now that R. Samuel b. Isaac said: What is meant by the verse, Thou hast blessed the work of his hands? Whoever took a farthing from Job was blessed; even to buy from and to sell to him is advisable.
Pesachim (113a) strive to be on good terms with him upon whom the hour smiles
https://www.investopedia.com/unemployment-rate-by-president-8637843
An average of the monthly unemployment rate for all months of each presidential term
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/04/politics/fact-check-trump-campaign-final-day-election/index.html
The jobs revision in August: Trump repeated his false claim that a “whistleblower” was responsible for a downward revision to jobs numbers by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, which announced in August that its annual revision of labor data found that the economy added about 818,000 fewer jobs than initially reported for the 12 months ending in March.
William Beach, a conservative economist who was appointed by Trump to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, wrote on social media: “For those who think the big revision to the BLS jobs numbers ‘leaked’ and was meant to come out after the election, remember that BLS always announces its draft revisions in August and announced this year’s date, August 21, many months ago. It is important to check your facts.”
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/10/trumps-final-numbers/
The economy lost 2.7 million jobs. The unemployment rate increased by 1.7 percentage points to 6.4%.
https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/11/04/idf-launches-first-ultra-orthodox-combat-brigade/
The military has adopted a new approach, moving away from viewing itself as an "educator" for the ultra-Orthodox community. Instead, it aims to demonstrate that religious observance and military service can coexist. The strategy focuses on building broad-based support for recruitment, including seeking rabbinical endorsement.
