🧩 BND Motif Index · M539
Flip-flopper
A politician reverses position whenever it suits them, and the reversal is read as proof they never believed anything.
🎭 Archetypes🗂️ Politician Archetypes
- 10claims filed under it
- 3left shows it came up on
- 1center show it came up on
- 5right shows it came up on
- 1claim retold online
- 1fact-checker
⚠️ 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
⤵️ under it: 🧩 Last person he spoke to
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Sheep's clothing
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
⚖️ center 1
"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)
- 📰 Trump's Russian diesel deal faces bipartisan backlash 2026-10-09 to 2026-10-17
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-24 “Vivek Ramaswamy has no guiding morals and lies to different crowds to suit the room.”
🎙️ The Adam Mockler Show 🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) 🎙️ The Tim Dillon Show - 2026-10-22 “David Jolly is a fraud and a coward who changes positions based on his political party.”
🎙️ Fox News Rundown 🎙️ The Dan Bongino Show - 2026-10-21 “James Talarico is changing his political stances to appeal to more voters.”
🎙️ The Michael Berry Show 🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-16 “Kathy Hochul is being dishonest about her administration's stance on working with ICE.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-15 “James Tallarico changes his political positions to match others because he cannot win based on his actual record.”
🎙️ The Michael Berry Show 🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ The Dan Bongino Show 🎙️ PBD Podcast (podcast) - 2026-10-11 “Trump's Russian diesel deal, weeks after threatening sanctions on buyers, helps fund Russia's war.”
🎙️ BBC Global News Podcast - 2026-10-11 “The Trump administration is pursuing a potentially illegal and destabilizing deal with Russia for diesel fuel.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-07 “Trump encourages mail-in voting while claiming it is full of fraud, creating a contradiction that voters must weigh.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-07 “A top North Carolina Republican flipped-flopped on suspending the state’s gas tax.” 🔎 PolitiFact
- 2026-07-25 “John Fetterman is confusing because he was far left and now leans right.” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
M539 · first seen 2026-10-07 · last 2026-10-24 · what this is · how the index works