I type on this WordPress page and the letters are like insects. I squint my eyes to see them. It differs from Microsoft Word, where they soar on the page. Where’s the naturalness of writing here? Sometimes I ask the AI assistant what it thinks of my post, and it tells me to write advice on how to cope with a malady such as stress or anxiety or depression, as if I’m a self-help columnist, which I’m not. And I love it when it says the work needs cohesion and focus. Whatever. Who has time? I can bet after I finish this, the same will happen. AI lacks the brains to realize I have ADHD and some things I can’t do, even on Adderall. It also tells me to write a conclusion to these posts, but I suck at that. I never have a conclusion. I just write until the shit ends.

There’s no time. I missed the debate between Trump and Harris, but I thought I heard there wouldn’t be a moderator. I saw a picture of them going to shake hands, which surprised me. I didn’t think they would dare touch each other because of how much hatred there is. Maybe not as much. I also heard they would mute their mics when the other person debated. I can’t believe in a matter of months one of them will become president. And then what? What does either of them stand for? Just as long as they don’t screw this country up, and both of them could do that.

What happened to presidents? They’ve all had their flaws, although I wasn’t living to experience Roosevelt. He was the first president to appear on television at the World’s Fair, but his “Fireside Chats” were on radio. How did the American public perceive him when he was on just that medium? Imagine if these nominees didn’t have a television or social media to communicate through. Would people hate them as much? Or have those mediums made people dislike them even more than if they were just on the radio?

My father told me he used to listen to the Dodgers on the radio when he was a boy in the 1950s, and it was like listening to a bedtime story versus their appearance on television. You may liken it to Roosevelt’s voice as opposed to the sight of him, or it couldn’t have made much of a difference at all. Television does influence people in its own way, and not for the better. Don’t get me started with social media, which should die, period. It looks like it’s here to stay. I can’t think of another medium that’ll take over. Then again, I never foresaw the birth of Twitter or Facebook or Instagram or TikTok. It worries me what will come next