🧩 BND Motif Index · M1297
Kissing the ring
A company or institution is said to bend to a leader before he asks, trimming its product, its coverage or its rules to stay in his favor, and others answer that it is caution or sloppy work.
- 4claims filed under it
- 3left shows it came up on
- 1center show it came up on
- 2right shows it came up on
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Lapdog
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (3 left-leaning, 1 center, 2 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
- center
- right-leaning
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Federal Election Commission system disrupted by cyberattack days before midterms 2026-10-27 to 2026-10-30
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “as soon as Trump came back to power, they lined up to... curry favor” “because they don't want to invite political criticism from President Trump” “even Mark Zuckerberg is fucking cucking himself to the regime and pulling down the no-cams No Kings accounts” “Google is restricting it's AI to avoid angering Trump.” “it IS more likely just amazingly sloppy work” “kissing the ring as usual” “who have they been cozying up with?... It's Donald Trump” “Zuckerberg sucking up to Trump... the money, of course, the ballroom”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 1
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
- 2026-11-01 “Mark Zuckerberg is cucking himself to the regime to win Donald Trump's favor.” 2
Told on the right 1
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
- 2026-10-29 “The Federal Reserve may be influenced by the political environment to avoid interest rate hikes.” 2
Told on both sides 1
claims heard on left- and right-leaning shows alike
- 2026-11-01 “Tech oligarchs are aligning with Trump to curry favor.” 3
Retold online 1
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-10-29 “Google AI is providing distorted or evasive answers about the 2020 election to US citizens.”
M1297 · first seen 2026-10-29 · what this is · how the index works