Two Drinks With. . . Steve Bannon’s ‘Transhumanist Editor’ ⁠72%

By Suzy Weiss⁠45%

7/10/2026, 1:59:28 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Availability Heuristic, and Pessimism Bias, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 38.5% saturation with 102 hits. Analysis detected 960 faulty-reasoning hits from 265 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 64% and a BS Rank of ⁠72% (6,325 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 71.10% of the article peer group.

Joe Allen’s been touring the country with Humans First. 
(All photos by Alyssa Schukar for The Free Press ) 
The anti-AI activist says he is “proudly” in the tradition of the Satanic Panic—and that it’s everyone’s job to save America from our AI-slop future. 
07.10.26 — Two Drinks 
Produced by ElevenLabs using AI narration 
Over a plate of spaghetti Bolognese and a carafe of the house red, Joe Allen tells me what might happen when artificial intelligence surpasses the capabilities of humanity. 
“Someone—Thomas Massie, or Bernie Sanders—ends up taking the fucking longevity injection,” says Allen, 46, an anti-AI activist who’s railed against the technology for years, most prominently as the “transhumanist editor” for Steve Bannon’s popular War Room podcast. 
“He lives forever, but he becomes a Luddite, and he just completely shuts down the entire economy . . . and then China takes over, and we’re all speaking Mandarin and eating noodles.” 
Allen adds, “I don’t think that’s gonna happen,” but hey—anything can happen. 
Another option, he muses between sips of wine, is that we will end up in a Matrix -style hellscape, where humans are made subservient not to the Chinese Communist Party but to a class of sentient computers who survey and control our every move. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 8.7%Suzy Weiss: 1.6%The FP: 5.8%Confirmation Bias8.7%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.0%The FP: 0.9%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 30.6%Suzy Weiss: 4.7%The FP: 4.1%Availability Heuristic30.6%This article: 14.0%Suzy Weiss: 1.1%The FP: 1.8%Representativeness Heuristic14.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 1.6%The FP: 1.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 4.5%Suzy Weiss: 1.2%The FP: 1.5%Overconfidence Bias4.5%This article: 34.7%Suzy Weiss: 6.3%The FP: 9.5%Framing Effect34.7%This article: 3.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.3%The FP: 0.5%Loss Aversion3.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.3%The FP: 0.5%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.0%The FP: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.1%The FP: 1.3%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 29.1%Suzy Weiss: 1.2%The FP: 1.6%Pessimism Bias29.1%This article: 21.9%Suzy Weiss: 9.2%The FP: 10.8%Negativity Bias21.9%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.4%The FP: 1.4%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.7%The FP: 1.3%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.4%The FP: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 1.6%The FP: 1.9%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.8%The FP: 1.2%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.4%The FP: 1.9%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.6%The FP: 0.4%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.0%The FP: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 1.1%The FP: 2.1%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 1.5%The FP: 1.1%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.0%The FP: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 1.5%The FP: 2.3%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 1.2%The FP: 1.0%Straw Man0.0%This article: 8.7%Suzy Weiss: 1.1%The FP: 3.2%Appeal to Authority8.7%This article: 29.1%Suzy Weiss: 3.1%The FP: 2.5%False Dilemma29.1%This article: 29.1%Suzy Weiss: 2.3%The FP: 1.1%Slippery Slope29.1%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.2%The FP: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 12.5%Suzy Weiss: 6.8%The FP: 8.9%Hasty Generalization12.5%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.1%The FP: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 9.4%Suzy Weiss: 0.3%The FP: 1.2%Bandwagon9.4%This article: 38.5%Suzy Weiss: 4.0%The FP: 5.8%Appeal to Emotion38.5%This article: 8.7%Suzy Weiss: 0.7%The FP: 1.5%Begging the Question8.7%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.4%The FP: 2.7%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.0%The FP: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.1%The FP: 0.6%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.0%The FP: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.0%The FP: 0.4%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 14.0%Suzy Weiss: 2.2%The FP: 3.2%Anecdotal14.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.3%The FP: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 14.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.8%The FP: 2.1%Ambiguity (Equivocation)14.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.0%The FP: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.4%The FP: 0.2%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.0%The FP: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.0%The FP: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.3%The FP: 0.3%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 2.6%The FP: 2.5%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 14.0%Suzy Weiss: 1.9%The FP: 1.9%Quote-first Misdirection14.0%This article: 20.0%Suzy Weiss: 12.2%The FP: 15.0%Biased Writer Voice20.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 3.0%The FP: 2.8%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 0.0%The FP: 0.5%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzy Weiss: 1.9%The FP: 3.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 18.1%Suzy Weiss: 6.1%The FP: 4.6%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…18.1%

265 words analyzed.

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Analysis

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