🧩 BND Motif Index · M584
Own goal
a side blunders in a way that hands its opponents an advantage. The harm is strategic, in a contest, and the beneficiary is the rival.
- 16claims filed under it
- 5left shows it came up on
- 6center shows it came up on
- 7right shows it came up on
- 7claims 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
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 5
🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) 🎙️ The Adam Mockler Show 🎙️ The Majority Report (podcast) 🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) 🎙️ To the Contrary with Charlie Sykes
"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)
- 📰 Vivek Ramaswamy's attack ad sparks GOP internal conflict and Trump's public defense 2026-10-20 to 2026-10-26
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-27 “David Eby and the NDP lost the election because they failed to mobilize voters and surrendered to the Conservatives.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-27 “Vivek Ramaswamy's vicious attack ad using Amy Acton's childhood sexual abuse is shameful and causing businesses to pull out of his tour.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-26 “Vivek Ramaswamy ran a vile ad using Amy Acton's mother to attack her childhood trauma involving her stepfather's sexual abuse.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-26 “Vivek Ramaswamy's ad has become toxic and is hurting the entire Republican ticket in Ohio.”
🎙️ The Majority Report (podcast) 🎙️ Breaking Points 🎙️ The Adam Mockler Show - 2026-10-26 “BC voters have elected themselves into a lot of hurt because of bad decisions and leadership.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-25 “Vivek Ramaswamy released a vile ad weaponizing Amy Acton's childhood sexual abuse.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-25 “Vivek Ramaswamy has miscalculated politically by running the ad.”
🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) 🎙️ Louder with Crowder 🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) 🎙️ Left, Right & Center 🎙️ The Dispatch Podcast 🎙️ NPR Politics Podcast 🎙️ The Majority Report (podcast) 🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ PBD Podcast (podcast) 🎙️ To the Contrary with Charlie Sykes 🎙️ The Tim Dillon Show 🎙️ Morning Wire - 2026-10-23 “An ad used by Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign turns an opponent into a sympathetic figure by omitting context about her family.”
🎙️ Ruthless 🎙️ The Dan Bongino Show - 2026-10-22 “Scott Wiener's use of an AI chatbot to mock Connie Chan was a significant campaign mistake.”
🎙️ Forum (KQED) - 2026-10-22 “Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign made an unforced error that could damage other Republican candidates in Ohio.”
🎙️ Ruthless - 2026-10-21 “The Ramaswamy ad could backfire by alienating female voters.”
🎙️ Politico Playbook - 2026-10-13 “Darlene Graham's primary performance was an unforced error that could hurt Republicans in South Carolina.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-12 “Trump endangered the Republican Party's control of the Senate by choosing Ken Paxton as a candidate.”
🎙️ The Adam Mockler Show - 2026-10-08 “Harassing artists over the genderbent Draco Malfoy trend is cruel and misplaced, and makes trans people look like a hysterical mob.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-07 “The Green Party's "Zionism is racism" motion is an own goal: a careless slogan that split the party, handed Labour an excuse and hurts the Palestinian cause.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-05 “The midterm convention held by Trump in Dallas was detrimental to Ken Paxton's political standing.”
🎙️ Politico Playbook 🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) 🎙️ The Intelligence (Economist)
M584 · first seen 2026-10-07 · last 2026-10-26 · what this is · how the index works