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[@Vilageidiotx] on the photo, good point and I stand corrected. 

As for the policies, I don't think they're that insane. For instance the 'China is a currency manipulator' thing has been known and has been 'proven' true numerous times. 

Also, his withdrawal of UN funds for climate change is smart. Flint was a disaster. Perhaps it's a smart move of him to fix that shit. IDK, I don't really think all these are insane as said before, nor are they propaganda. 

Most of them also aren't really policies, lol.
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They aren't really insane so much as tone deaf, and that is hit and miss. I actually agree with some of them, in that I think we are rushing into TPP, and controlling lobbyists is not a bad idea even if he makes it sound like they are a group you can just sorta fire. Like I said, the Federal Government freeze is the one that jumps out at me, and only because I am in the trenches there and know why it is dumb. 

I don't think it is completely unfair to call it propaganda (some of it is, in the sense that some of it is there to create a narrative that favors Trump. His promises are worded in a way that makes him sound like a crusading hero rather than presenting problems as they truly are, especially important since Trump tends to drown when he gets into details.) It might be clearer to call them "Campaign promises", because as a populist that is what he is dealing in. If you're Joe Schmuck and you really think government employees literally do nothing but stare at the ceiling and collect pay checks, then sure, that plans sounds great (incidentally a narrative Joe Schmuck likes because it strokes his own ego, making him think he is really the hard worker and everybody else needs to be made like him). But in reality government jobs are just jobs, where people are hired to do work that needs to be done. His approach is gobbledygook that would mostly force managers to bend over backwards for employees they already have, thus making the government employee stereotype more true as we get loads of overtime and a free hand to be shitty because we can't be replaced. Absolutely useless policy, but it looks good on a piece of paper because it paints a picture of an entire field of employment corrupt all the way to the root that only Trump can fix. 

And that tone-deaf approach to policy tells me that Trump isn't a Ross Perot with charts and graphs giving us a real, detailed list of whats and hows. Trump is dealing in paper-thin populism, suggesting he is either 1: A common politician, promising shit just to get in office, with no real plan to do any of it once he comes in, or 2: A guy who has no clue what he is doing. And honestly I don't really know with him because I don't really understand his angle. Like, I don't know [i]why[/i] he wants to be president, considering he didn't really follow the cursus honorum and came entirely out of left field (or, uh, right field). If he is just in there to exercise power for his own interests and rob the bank like every other politician out there, then he's probably number 1. But if this is literally an ego thing, number 2 is entirely possible too. He's the type of public figure who is hard to read because his main skill is being a celebrity, so it is hard to tell what is really him, and what is just him maintaining his celebrity-ness

Now I have to say like I've said before; I have no dog in this race. I don't like Hillary. I just also happen to not like Trump. For different reasons, but there it stands.