🧩 BND Motif Index · M1601
Good riddance
A beaten or departing public figure is sent off with joy rather than comment: good riddance, never want to hear the name again, and may the career be over for good.
- 11claims filed under it
- 2left shows it came up on
- 1right show it came up on
- 9claims 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.
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (2 left-leaning, 0 center, 1 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
- 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)
- 📰 Democrat Troy Jackson defeats Susan Collins in Maine Senate race 2026-11-04 to 2026-11-06
- 📰 Democrat amy Acton defeats Republican Vivek Ramaswamy in Ohio governor’s race 2026-11-04 to 2026-11-06
- 📰 Stephen Miller named White House chief of staff 2026-11-06 to 2026-11-10
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “Bye-bye, Lauren Boebert.” “Don't let the door bang you on the ass on your way out!” “Finally that old fraud Susan Collins is OUT” “Finally! Now we don’t have to listen to him.” “good fucking riddance you fence sitting nothing burger” “Holy shit. They got Susan Collins!” “I hope and pray that it obliterates his political political career now and forever.” “It would be great if we never have to see or hear from him again” “I’m glad she’s quitting her unsuccessful podcast.” “Per these midterms, Fetterman can also kiss his career goodbye in a few years.” “Please tell me that I never have to hear Vivek Ramaswamy name again!” “Poof. And just like that, John Fetterman is irrelevant.”
🧶 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
- 2026-11-05 “Vivek Ramaswamy's political career should be obliterated for his vile campaign tactics.” 2
Told on the right 1
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
- 2026-11-10 “Lauren Boebert lost her race, even after moving to a more Republican district to run.” 1
Retold online 9
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-11-10 “Katie Miller is stopping her podcast because her husband Stephen Miller is becoming Trump's chief of staff.”
- 2026-11-06 “Donald Trump said he will move to Israel and become their Prime Minister if Americans get tired of him.”
- 2026-11-06 “Susan Collins, beaten in the midterms, is mocked with her own catchphrase: now she is 'very concerned' about her job.”
- 2026-11-06 “Susan Collins is out at last: she has finally 'learned her lesson' and can retire her concerns.”
- 2026-11-06 “Nithya Raman and Amy Acton winning while Vivek Ramaswamy and Cindy Hyde-Smith lose brings joy and hope.”
- 2026-11-06 “Susan Collins losing has cheered people's souls.”
- 2026-11-06 “John Fetterman is now irrelevant and will likely retire or end his career soon.”
- 2026-11-05 “The speaker is a pathetic, lying weasel and it is great that he is no longer the Speaker.”
- 2026-11-05 “People never want to hear Vivek Ramaswamy's name again.”
M1601 · first seen 2026-11-05 · last 2026-11-09 · what this is · how the index works