🧩 BND Motif Index · M509
Leopards Eating People's Faces Party
The party represents a political group that openly promises to hurt people, but voters support them anyway--falsely believing the harm will only target other people.
📜 Plots🗂️ Leader-Follower Dynamics
- 14claims filed under it
- 4left shows it came up on
- 2center shows it came up on
- 8claims retold online
- 2fact-checkers
⚠️ 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: 🧩 Political infighting 🧩 Politicians' empty promises
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 4
🎙️ CNN 5 Things 🎙️ Pod Save America 🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show 🎙️ To the Contrary with Charlie Sykes
⚖️ center 2
🐘 right 0
🦗 none of our right shows, so far
"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.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-22 “Anti-immigrant policies cause people to realize their own neighbors and community members are being targeted.”
🎙️ To the Contrary with Charlie Sykes - 2026-10-21 “Ken Paxton's team escorted a Black Republican woman from an event because they mistook her for a paid agitator.”
🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show - 2026-10-21 “The Republican party is a white supremacy party that excludes Black and brown people.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-21 “A Black woman was mistreated by the GOP after supporting them.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-20 “A Black MAGA influencer was kicked out of a Ken Paxton rally.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-12 “Trump's tariffs are causing a backlash among factory workers and may lead to a Republican midterm disaster.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-12 “Hispanic voters are shifting away from the Republican party due to economic pressures and targeting by ICE.”
🎙️ Pod Save America 🎙️ Breaking Points 🎙️ CNN 5 Things 🎙️ Forum (KQED) - 2026-10-10 “The Trump administration's cuts to federal food programs have left a rural West Virginia community in crisis, with food pantries struggling to meet rising demand.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-09 “Angie Nixon said Trump has deported ‘over 13,000’ Cubans.” 🔎 PolitiFact
- 2026-10-08 “A social media user posted a video on Facebook and Instagram showing Arkansas farmers praying for 'more Mexicans' to replace those deported, in a context of rising prices and trade wars impacting U.S. farmers.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-07 “Trump promised a $5,000 payment to every adult U.S. citizen if Republicans win Congress, but his policies have instead cut Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP, raised premiums, and left millions without coverage.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-06 “President Trump shared Senator Tom Cotton's personal phone number to pressure him on the daylight saving time debate.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-05 “Latino voters are increasingly disapproving of Trump and the Republicans due to economic concerns and immigration policies.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-09-26 “Voters believe Vivek is a target of anti-immigrant sentiment despite being a U.S. citizen.” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
M509 · first seen 2026-10-06 · last 2026-10-23 · what this is · how the index works