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Trump lauds killer ICE agents, and GOP keeps trying to make communism happen ⁠76%

By Daily Kos Staff⁠96%

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 ⁠76% (5,330 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 75.70% of the article peer group.

Trump lauds killer ICE agents, and GOP keeps trying to make communism happen 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 6.9%Daily Kos Staff: 5.1%Daily Kos: 5.7%Confirmation Bias6.9%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 6.6%Daily Kos Staff: 3.4%Daily Kos: 3.3%Availability Heuristic6.6%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.3%Daily Kos: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 5.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%Daily Kos: 0.9%Hindsight Bias5.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.3%Daily Kos: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 18.9%Daily Kos Staff: 20.8%Daily Kos: 8.9%Framing Effect18.9%This article: 5.4%Daily Kos Staff: 2.5%Daily Kos: 0.6%Loss Aversion5.4%This article: 6.2%Daily Kos Staff: 0.4%Daily Kos: 0.3%Status Quo Bias6.2%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%Daily Kos: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 1.1%Daily Kos: 1.4%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 6.9%Daily Kos Staff: 3.8%Daily Kos: 2.0%Pessimism Bias6.9%This article: 33.2%Daily Kos Staff: 36.1%Daily Kos: 15.4%Negativity Bias33.2%This article: 6.6%Daily Kos Staff: 0.5%Daily Kos: 1.0%Self-Serving Bias6.6%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 3.5%Daily Kos: 2.6%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 3.9%Daily Kos: 2.1%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 2.7%Daily Kos Staff: 2.2%Daily Kos: 1.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias2.7%This article: 1.5%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.8%Halo Effect1.5%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.9%Daily Kos: 0.8%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 6.2%Daily Kos Staff: 1.1%Daily Kos: 1.5%Recency Bias6.2%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%Daily Kos: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 2.3%Daily Kos Staff: 16.4%Daily Kos: 5.8%Ad Hominem2.3%This article: 2.7%Daily Kos Staff: 2.1%Daily Kos: 1.4%Straw Man2.7%This article: 2.7%Daily Kos Staff: 0.5%Daily Kos: 3.2%Appeal to Authority2.7%This article: 4.6%Daily Kos Staff: 3.1%Daily Kos: 2.3%False Dilemma4.6%This article: 2.3%Daily Kos Staff: 0.7%Daily Kos: 1.3%Slippery Slope2.3%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.2%Daily Kos: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 11.6%Daily Kos Staff: 15.1%Daily Kos: 9.8%Hasty Generalization11.6%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%Daily Kos: 0.5%Red Herring0.0%This article: 9.3%Daily Kos Staff: 1.8%Daily Kos: 0.6%Bandwagon9.3%This article: 22.0%Daily Kos Staff: 19.3%Daily Kos: 7.3%Appeal to Emotion22.0%This article: 5.0%Daily Kos Staff: 4.4%Daily Kos: 1.9%Begging the Question5.0%This article: 1.9%Daily Kos Staff: 2.8%Daily Kos: 3.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)1.9%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.3%Daily Kos: 0.5%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 11.2%Daily Kos Staff: 1.1%Daily Kos: 0.8%Burden of Proof11.2%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 6.6%Daily Kos Staff: 1.7%Daily Kos: 2.0%Anecdotal6.6%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 3.0%Daily Kos: 1.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.3%Daily Kos: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 1.9%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.4%Genetic Fallacy1.9%This article: 2.3%Daily Kos Staff: 3.3%Daily Kos: 2.8%Unattributed Quote2.3%This article: 3.5%Daily Kos Staff: 2.7%Daily Kos: 1.8%Quote-first Misdirection3.5%This article: 35.9%Daily Kos Staff: 49.7%Daily Kos: 23.1%Biased Writer Voice35.9%This article: 3.5%Daily Kos Staff: 5.5%Daily Kos: 2.1%Indoctrination3.5%This article: 37.1%Daily Kos Staff: 32.3%Daily Kos: 10.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias37.1%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.4%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 12.7%Daily Kos Staff: 11.5%Daily Kos: 2.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…12.7%

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