🧩 BND Motif Index · M793
On again, off again
A leader announces, retracts and revives the same move, a war, a tariff, a deal, until the whiplash itself is the story.
- 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.
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
⚖️ center 1
🐘 right 2
"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)
- 📰 MI5 chief says Iran is targeting military sites 2026-10-14 to 2026-10-15
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-15 “The US military has developed strike plans to use the 'mother of all bombs' against Iranian energy and nuclear sites if President Trump orders a resumption of combat.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-15 “Elon Musk and Donald Trump have an on-again, off-again relationship.”
🎙️ CNN 5 Things - 2026-10-15 “The US and Israel intend to resume fighting with Iran.”
🎙️ Fox News Rundown 🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) 🎙️ Breaking Points 🎙️ The Majority Report (podcast) 🎙️ The Megyn Kelly Show - 2026-10-08 “Trump is considering resuming major combat operations against Iran.”
🎙️ Breaking Points 🎙️ Fox News Rundown
M793 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-10-26 · what this is · how the index works