Daily Kos⁠85%

Bernie Sanders’ latest blunder, and guess who’s paying for Trump’s latest vanity project? ⁠100%

By Daily Kos Staff⁠97%

7/8/2026, 12:00:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 25 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Biased Writer Voice, and Ad Hominem, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 92.5% saturation with 124 hits. Analysis detected 672 faulty-reasoning hits from 134 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 100% and a BS Rank of ⁠100% (64 of 21,198 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 99.70% of the article peer group.

Bernie Sanders’ latest blunder, and guess who’s paying for Trump’s latest vanity project? 
Trump’s pointless helipad is going to cost us a fortune 
Will the expensive vanity projects never end? 
ICE is now coming for US citizens over strongly worded emails 
And it could happen to you. 
Bernie Sanders sure knows how to pick ’em 
Graham Platner is just the latest disaster. 
Not THOSE huddled masses 
Talk about an icky asterisk. 
Trump’s plans for racist renovations to the Smithsonian are unbelievable 
He and his minions will stop at nothing to rewrite history. 
Trump’s latest ploy to avoid paying E. 
Jean Carroll is just pathetic 
When it comes to dodging accountability, the president never gives in. 
Click here to see more cartoons. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 17.9%Daily Kos Staff: 5.1%Daily Kos: 5.7%Confirmation Bias17.9%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 8.2%Daily Kos Staff: 3.4%Daily Kos: 3.3%Availability Heuristic8.2%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.3%Daily Kos: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%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: 19.4%Daily Kos Staff: 20.8%Daily Kos: 9.0%Framing Effect19.4%This article: 4.5%Daily Kos Staff: 2.5%Daily Kos: 0.6%Loss Aversion4.5%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: 14.9%Daily Kos Staff: 3.8%Daily Kos: 2.0%Pessimism Bias14.9%This article: 92.5%Daily Kos Staff: 36.1%Daily Kos: 15.5%Negativity Bias92.5%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.5%Daily Kos: 1.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 8.2%Daily Kos Staff: 3.5%Daily Kos: 2.6%Fundamental Attribution Error8.2%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 3.0%Daily Kos Staff: 3.9%Daily Kos: 2.2%In-Group Bias3.0%This article: 3.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.2%Daily Kos: 1.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias3.0%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: 8.2%Daily Kos Staff: 1.1%Daily Kos: 1.5%Recency Bias8.2%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: 27.6%Daily Kos Staff: 16.4%Daily Kos: 5.9%Ad Hominem27.6%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.1%Daily Kos: 1.4%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.5%Daily Kos: 3.1%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 5.2%Daily Kos Staff: 3.1%Daily Kos: 2.4%False Dilemma5.2%This article: 8.2%Daily Kos Staff: 0.7%Daily Kos: 1.3%Slippery Slope8.2%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.2%Daily Kos: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 26.1%Daily Kos Staff: 15.1%Daily Kos: 9.7%Hasty Generalization26.1%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: 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 87.3%Daily Kos Staff: 19.3%Daily Kos: 7.3%Appeal to Emotion87.3%This article: 8.2%Daily Kos Staff: 4.4%Daily Kos: 1.9%Begging the Question8.2%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 2.8%Daily Kos: 4.0%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.3%Daily Kos: 0.5%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 14.9%Daily Kos Staff: 1.1%Daily Kos: 0.8%Burden of Proof14.9%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: 2.1%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 11.9%Daily Kos Staff: 3.0%Daily Kos: 1.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)11.9%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: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.4%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 5.2%Daily Kos Staff: 3.3%Daily Kos: 2.8%Unattributed Quote5.2%This article: 9.7%Daily Kos Staff: 2.7%Daily Kos: 1.9%Quote-first Misdirection9.7%This article: 85.8%Daily Kos Staff: 49.7%Daily Kos: 23.2%Biased Writer Voice85.8%This article: 9.7%Daily Kos Staff: 5.5%Daily Kos: 2.1%Indoctrination9.7%This article: 0.0%Daily Kos Staff: 32.3%Daily Kos: 10.6%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 7.5%Daily Kos Staff: 0.1%Daily Kos: 0.4%Politically Right Leaning Bias7.5%This article: 4.5%Daily Kos Staff: 11.5%Daily Kos: 2.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…4.5%

134 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker8.2%attributed speech123writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 100.0% coverageICE • 11 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 4 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

ICE

100%flagged-word coverage
11 attributed words100% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice+15.4 ptsWriter: 84.6%ICE: 100.0%100.0%Quote-first Misdirection-10.6 ptsWriter: 10.6%ICE: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-10.6 ptsWriter: 10.6%ICE: 0.0%0.0%Politically Right Leaning -8.1 ptsWriter: 8.1%ICE: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-5.7 ptsWriter: 5.7%ICE: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -4.9 ptsWriter: 4.9%ICE: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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