Trump Is Still Mastering the Art of Making GREAT Deals with Designers!

"I have so many websites, I have them all over the place. I hire people, they do a website. It costs me $3."         --Donald J. Trump, Trump Tower Campaign Announcement, June 16, 2015

Today the improbable presumptive nominee of the GOP made another official announcement, about his choice of running mate Mike Pence, and he spent another whole three American dollars* on a new logo.

Maybe it’s just me, but this seems very inappropriate for a campaign logo pic.twitter.com/KJfHIuj2Sf

— Taegan Goddard (@politicalwire) July 15, 2016

On the left, the Aryan Nations logo.

On the right, the Trump Pence logo. pic.twitter.com/ie3Qb6E5i9

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) July 15, 2016

Breaking the mattress of America. pic.twitter.com/M4Cq62YS2c

— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) July 15, 2016

In graphically depicting what he intends to do to America, the new campaign logo is Donald Trump at his most candid. pic.twitter.com/GG2BQS3dXz

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) July 15, 2016

OMG it gets better.#TrumpPence logo plagiarized??https://t.co/vzeKUEEsgh pic.twitter.com/2zd8tJVr8L

— Kerri Lyn (@GoddessKerriLyn) July 15, 2016

#TrumpPence Nope. Trumps logo to remain the same .. pic.twitter.com/yG6pTU5YTB

— Republican Swine (@RepublicanSwine) July 15, 2016

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*The new slang term for "three dollars" is "trumpence" (pronounced like tuppence in Mary Poppins).

Helvetica Hysteria

There was a certain lack of typographical variety in this afternoon's haul of junk mail from triple A and Crate & Barrel. It's common knowledge among designers that Helvetica is a safe and classy choice, but one can be too safe.

Why Is the Internet So Blue?

An article on Slate.fr this morning asks, "Pourquoi tous les sites Internet utilisent-ils le bleu?"
True Blue Liberal responds, "Pourquoi pas?"

I hope the new design attracts scores of new visitors

Well, "scores" is probably optimistic.
Maybe "dozens" is more realistic.
I'd hope for at least a dizaine of new visitors after taking the afternoon to brighten up a design that had been done all in black since it was created in the dark days of early November 2004 when we had lost all hope in the American electorate and the motto at the head of this new blog was "helping save america from the dark side, one state at a time." And what was going to save those deep red states in the thrall of torturers? Why, t-shirts of course! You laugh. But who's our President now?

Maybe the new page design will even prompt me to write here on a more regular basis. Or maybe not.