Ah, see... but there's a deeper problem here, one that really does seem to be hurting Trump's rep -- he's running for president and he is losing after an embarrassing performance in a widely viewed debate that he was supposed to have prepped for because that was his big chance but that he lost because he failed to prep. So what is he doing now with five weeks left and two debates to go?

He's picking on a model on Twitter.

He's unable to pull it together for five lousy weeks and another 3 hours of television, to make a real go at the White House.  He's arguing with a model on Twitter.  He's not even arguing with her.  He's calling her names.

Look at it this way, barefooted... imagine I was the Democratic nominee for president and I was polling 40% on my best day and you supported me but also kind of believed I was just not able to get my shit together and then you noticed, at 3 am, that I am posting some BS about Ric Flair on dagblog.  As my supporter, wouldn't you feel betrayed?

This is all exposing Trump, finally, as unable to pull himself together to even try to win what anyone would consider the achievement of a lifetime, worth much more in prestige than making billions of dollars. And he's tweeting at some model that he used to know.

If you're compassionate and intelligent, you have trouble understanding how a girl could get raped and people will tut-tut about how much she drank and what she wore and the guy is portrayed as a normal kid with hormones and a life ahead of him. You have trouble understanding how police again and again will shoot someone and in the video nonchalantly walk around the dying person - some guilty, some innocent - for a half hour without giving first aid or anything - not one, but 3, 5 , 7 officers. You have trouble understanding why trying to offer coordinated, effective, affordable healthcare would produce such a backlash of hatred. We don't understand how bankers can slaughter the economy and people's savings and mortgages and then ask for bailouts and bonuses and turn it into a conservative us-vs-them movement. But it's there - the deplorables. Maybe a majority or near one. It exists in so many ways. Donald's the first successful candidate who didn't have to dogwhistle it - he's as subtle as a Vegas cabaret show. And in case no one noticed, Vegas is very successful - it's even transitioned to offering "family entertainment" so the kids can go on some rides while dad goes stare at tits and gambles away their college.

1 out of 6 eligible voters are disabled. We look as much like the Paralympics contestants than the Johnny off-to-war soldier or supermodel we hold as our fat-phobic ideal. I was surprised there were even a few plump girls at Rio standing up on the dais with grey balding pudgy men, and even a few mature women. 

This was the year we might have talked about women's advancement and equality, and instead we didn't make it past calling contestants Miss Piggy and broaching new lows like "bleeding from wherever" for mainstream candidates. 

I watched a Youtube of Nixon the other day, and the guy actually had decent comedic game-show timing, came across congenial and educated and could hold an audience walking around, and besides actually did pass environmental laws and discuss race and wound down over 500,000 troops over 3-4 troops. Agnew was the less polished Trump-like Jersey style corrupt pol, the law-and-order sidekick who went to jail for embezzlement - no way he would ever be seen as #1 billing (even though impeachment came close to putting him there)

Our deplorables don't even deserve Nixon, and he was considered unacceptable by 1972 - language, lying, character. Now there's absolutely nothing that would disqualify Nixon from the modern crowd. Even the hacking attack put many Dems squarely behind the Watergate break-in and rifling Ellsberg's psychiatrist records. It's the new normal, and it ain't pretty.

PS to add yet another round of email leaks from Clinton associates. Politico jumped in with a poorly edited excerpt from a Hillary speech in February that starts off making Hillary sound bad but then makes her sound reasonable and sympathetic if you read the whole thing. Still, most readers don't notice it's 8 months ago so wonder why she's appearing with Bernie now.