Daily Kos⁠84%

Diarrhea parasite continues its rampage, and Trump hides Iran war carnage ⁠98%

By Daily Kos Staff⁠96%

7/20/2026, 5:00:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Biased Writer Voice, and Ad Hominem, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 91.2% saturation with 103 hits. Analysis detected 657 faulty-reasoning hits from 113 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 97.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠98% (529 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 97.60% of the article peer group.

Trump is running out of space for his garish gold garbage 
This is getting ridiculous. 
Well, sh-t: Trump’s gutted FDA can’t find source of diarrhea parasite 
Oh, how we miss a working government. 
Trump caught hiding true carnage of Iran war 
But *sure,* it’s all under control. 
Wealth gap lesson #1 
CEOs make too much damn money. 
How a notorious billionaire is behind Trump’s Rose Garden statue spree 
As if buying off the Supreme Court wasn’t enough. 
US gets rave reviews as World Cup host despite Trump’s buffoonery 
Trump is the giant albatross around America’s neck. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 39.8%Daily Kos Staff: 5.1%Daily Kos: 5.7%Confirmation Bias39.8%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 3.4%Daily Kos: 3.3%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 5.3%Daily Kos Staff: 0.3%Daily Kos: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic5.3%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%Daily Kos: 0.9%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.3%Daily Kos: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 13.3%Daily Kos Staff: 20.8%Daily Kos: 8.9%Framing Effect13.3%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.5%Daily Kos: 0.6%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.4%Daily Kos: 0.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%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: 15.0%Daily Kos Staff: 3.8%Daily Kos: 2.0%Pessimism Bias15.0%This article: 81.4%Daily Kos Staff: 36.1%Daily Kos: 15.4%Negativity Bias81.4%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.5%Daily Kos: 1.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%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: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.2%Daily Kos: 1.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.8%Halo Effect0.0%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: 9.7%Daily Kos Staff: 1.1%Daily Kos: 1.5%Recency Bias9.7%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: 44.2%Daily Kos Staff: 16.4%Daily Kos: 5.8%Ad Hominem44.2%This article: 5.3%Daily Kos Staff: 2.1%Daily Kos: 1.4%Straw Man5.3%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.5%Daily Kos: 3.2%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 9.7%Daily Kos Staff: 3.1%Daily Kos: 2.3%False Dilemma9.7%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.7%Daily Kos: 1.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.2%Daily Kos: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 18.6%Daily Kos Staff: 15.1%Daily Kos: 9.8%Hasty Generalization18.6%This article: 9.7%Daily Kos Staff: 0.6%Daily Kos: 0.5%Red Herring9.7%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 1.8%Daily Kos: 0.6%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 91.2%Daily Kos Staff: 19.3%Daily Kos: 7.3%Appeal to Emotion91.2%This article: 24.8%Daily Kos Staff: 4.4%Daily Kos: 1.9%Begging the Question24.8%This article: 9.7%Daily Kos Staff: 2.8%Daily Kos: 3.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)9.7%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.3%Daily Kos: 0.5%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 13.3%Daily Kos Staff: 1.1%Daily Kos: 0.8%Burden of Proof13.3%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: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 1.7%Daily Kos: 2.0%Anecdotal0.0%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: 3.5%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.1%Middle Ground3.5%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: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.4%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 34.5%Daily Kos Staff: 3.3%Daily Kos: 2.8%Unattributed Quote34.5%This article: 15.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.7%Daily Kos: 1.8%Quote-first Misdirection15.0%This article: 81.4%Daily Kos Staff: 49.7%Daily Kos: 23.1%Biased Writer Voice81.4%This article: 13.3%Daily Kos Staff: 5.5%Daily Kos: 2.1%Indoctrination13.3%This article: 37.2%Daily Kos Staff: 32.3%Daily Kos: 10.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias37.2%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.4%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 5.3%Daily Kos Staff: 11.5%Daily Kos: 2.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…5.3%

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