Yes, it’s “worldly”–and always gives pause: discussing anything to do with politics.

So much venom (and subjectivity) out there.

And it’s so passing: when once we interviewed a former policeman from Omaha who’d had a near-death experience and asked him his chief “takeaway,” he said simply: when we die, we’ll find out “there are no big deals on this earth.”

Mull that over. The only big deal: our personal salvation.

But there are some things, worldwide, to note.

Kamala?

Dear Vice President, we appreciated your effervescent smile, and your almost tangible exudation of warmth. Both nice traits. You came across as very pleasant. But we can’t compute it: that niceness and your obsession with the “right” to abortion, right up to birth.

You and your running mate basically barnstormed the United States on the “right” (to slaughter a baby), despite widespread beliefs that life begins at conception and hard medical evidence that fairly early on, unborn babies feel excruciating pain during the abortion “procedure.”

This you deem “reproductive health.” Really? Do you actually think that? How on earth does compassion match up with such an action? You mention Jesus and proclaim a Baptist belief system, which is cognitive dissonance (excuse us but, to borrow a word used by your equally abortion-fervid vice- presidential candidate, “weird.”)

Tampons in men’s rooms? Trans operations for illegal immigrants and children (and anyone else)?

The real amazement is how anyone with such stands could have made it onto the big stage. Hopefully, no one with such views will ever again.

We mean no vitriol. Are there concerns about the other side?

Of course. There are. There always are. There were concerns with a president we especially liked (Ronald Reagan). But what strange times!

Mr. Trump: please be cautious with your appointments, particularly the role of Elon Musk. We appreciate his many gifts and successes (he’s “worth” more than $300 billion, or a third of a trillion, if that’s a measure), and the fact that he may actually succeed to getting rid of much waste in the federal government is terrific, but some things have come to our attention that give us a bit of pause. Will this fantastically rich man seek to diminish Social Security? Will the environmental agencies (even if streamlined, which they should be) survive?

Most especially, there are reports that Mr. Musk, who we find engaging and affable, has however what he himself calls a “demon mode.”

To quote one of many reports about this in the conservative Wall Street Journal, which carried an interview between a reporter named Tim Higgins and Elon Musk’s biographer, Walter Isaacson (who spent three years around Musk):

“‘Tim Higgins: A lot has been written about Elon Musk. He lives his life between the tweets. He has upended industries from the auto industry to aerospace, now trying to redo Twitter turned X. You spent two years shadowing him. What did you learn that we didn’t already know about Elon Musk?

“‘Walter Isaacson: Well, there’s certainly multiple Elon Musks, multiple personalities, whether it’s the hardcore engineering mode that you know so well where he can figure out how to do a battery cell or, more importantly, figure out how to do steps on an assembly line that will make the battery cell. But also there’s almost a demon mode of Elon Musk where he turns really dark and that can be very problematic. But with a Musk or anybody, you figure out how did they channel those demons and turn them into drives.

“‘Tim Higgins: What is demon mode in your mind?

“‘Walter Isaacson: Demon mode is something that happened to his father as well. It’s almost like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde where a cloud comes over and he gets into a trance and he can just be tough in a cold way. He never gets really angry, never gets that physical, but coldly brutal to people and he almost doesn’t remember afterwards what he’s done. Sometimes I’ll say, “Why did you say that to that person?” And he’ll look at me blankly as if he didn’t quite remember what happened while he was in demon mode.

“Tim Higgins: And sometimes, I’ve talked to people who’ve worked with him for years and years who considered themselves close with him and they’ve seen it occur to them and it’s almost, they describe it like a red mist comes over their eyes, his eyes, and he just goes into another world and doesn’t seem to remember it after the fact.

“Walter Isaacson: Exactly. It’s almost, you see a storm cloud coming in and he’s in a trance. And his father says, “It happens to me,” meaning the father. He says, “And I can’t help it. It just happens.” And likewise it happens to Elon. That’s not to excuse it, but he hardly remembers that he’s done it. Now, one of the things that Claire Boucher, known as Grimes, says is you don’t want to be around him when he’s in demon mode. “It’s really frightening,” she said. Then she added, “But demon mode is what gets s–t done.”

Lastly, about the tectonic shift in “media”: broadcasting is being replaced by podcasts and outlets such as CNN and MSNBC have seen their ratings take nosedives, and this is for the good. All biased journalism should go. Fox needs likewise to be careful.  Just the facts, ma’am, that TV detective used to intone.

Catch this from a London newspaper the other day:

“In 2016, when it was headed by since-ousted leader Jeff Zucker, it was the most watched network overall—a distinction that’s now held by Fox News.

“At the time, CNN had averaged 13.3 million viewers in prime time. Today, it’s only around 800,000.”

That’s what you call a core meltdown.