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Sarah Longwell and Bill Kristol: We're Governed by Broken Men 85%
By Sarah Longwell91%
7/20/2026, 7:59:44 PM
Keywords: Trump, Spain, World Cup, Ice, Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, Tate Brothers, Iran, United States, War, Platner, Dsa, Democrats, Bill Kristol, Sarah Longwell
BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Confirmation Bias, and Hasty Generalization, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 55.3% saturation with 131 hits. Analysis detected 1,183 faulty-reasoning hits from 237 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 78.2% and a BS Rank of 85% (2,843 of 18,913 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 85.00% of the article peer group.
Trump tried to steal the limelight and the valor of Spain at the World Cup, even as more troops died overseas; Stephen Miller regularly encourages ICE to be violent while Pete Hegseth pushes soldiers to be macho bullies.
The leaders in this country are men with no center and no core.
Now with the arrest of the Tate brothers in Miami, Trump gets a chance to extend his record of standing by sex pests and assaulters.
Plus: Iran and the U.S. are dangerously escalating the war, ICE is going even more rogue, Maine Dems have a replacement for Platner, and generic ballot polling suggests voters aren't necessarily gravitating to Democrats—and the noisy DSA may have a lot to do with that.
Bill Kristol joins special guest host Sarah Longwell.
Show notes:
Monday's "Morning Shots"
Sam and Mark Hertling on the Iran strikes on an air base in Jordan
Umberto Eco's "Ur-Fascism" piece
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