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Trump lauds killer ICE agents, and GOP keeps trying to make communism happen 75%

By Daily Kos Staff99%

7/16/2026, 12:00:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 31 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Negativity Bias, and Appeal to Emotion, with Politically Left Leaning Bias as the most egregious example at 37.1% saturation with 96 hits. Analysis detected 739 faulty-reasoning hits from 259 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 67.7% and a BS Rank of 75% (4,177 of 16,141 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 74.10% of the article peer group.

Trump lauds killer ICE agents, and GOP keeps trying to make communism happen 
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Confirmation Bias
6.9%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
6.6%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
5%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
18.9%
Loss Aversion
5.4%
Status Quo Bias
6.2%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
6.9%
Negativity Bias
33.2%
Self-Serving Bias
6.6%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
2.7%
Halo Effect
1.5%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
6.2%
Primacy Effect
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
2.3%
Straw Man
2.7%
Appeal to Authority
2.7%
False Dilemma
4.6%
Slippery Slope
2.3%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
11.6%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
9.3%
Appeal to Emotion
22%
Begging the Question
5%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
1.9%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
11.2%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
6.6%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
1.9%
Unattributed Quote
2.3%
Quote-first Misdirection
3.5%
Biased Writer Voice
35.9%
Indoctrination
3.5%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
37.1%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
12.7%

259 words analyzed.

Analysis

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