🧩 BND Motif Index · M821
The last guy
Everything is blamed on or measured against the predecessor: we inherited the worst border, it was worse under Biden, the last guy did it.
- 19claims filed under it
- 4left shows it came up on
- 1center show it came up on
- 9right shows it came up on
- 2claims 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
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Morning in America 🧩 The buck stops here
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 4
🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) 🎙️ The Bulwark Podcast 🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast 🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast)
⚖️ 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.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-26 “The Iran nuclear deal prevented Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons through diplomacy.”
🎙️ The Bulwark Podcast 🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) - 2026-10-24 “Trump claims high beef prices are a Biden issue he inherited.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-24 “JD Vance said high gas prices are caused because 20% of U.S. refining capacity stopped operating under Joe Biden.” 🔎 PolitiFact
- 2026-10-24 “JD Vance said that the biggest reason gas prices are high is because 20% of American refining capacity went offline while Joe Biden was president.” 🔎 PolitiFact
- 2026-10-24 “High gas prices are caused by the loss of American refining capacity under Joe Biden.”
🎙️ Breaking Points 🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) - 2026-10-23 “Joe Biden is a weak president who allowed a hellscape to develop.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-15 “Biden brought the country back from the brink of the COVID disaster.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-15 “The Biden administration released thousands of people into the country every day.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ The Benny Show - 2026-10-12 “Republicans are lying, grifting, and blaming Biden for everything to avoid defending their own mistakes and Trump's incompetence.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-10 “Democrats are responsible for increasing prices and decreasing affordability.”
🎙️ The Mark Levin Show 🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-10 “Inflation was higher under Joe Biden than it has been under Trump.”
🎙️ The Dan Bongino Show 🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show 🎙️ Verdict with Ted Cruz - 2026-10-09 “The Biden administration oversaw much higher inflation rates than the current economic state.”
🎙️ The Dan Bongino Show 🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show 🎙️ Verdict with Ted Cruz - 2026-10-09 “Inflation and prices are objectively higher under Trump than they were at the end of the Biden administration.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-09 “Twenty million illegal immigrants entered the United States under Joe Biden.”
🎙️ Bannon's War Room 🎙️ The Michael Berry Show - 2026-10-09 “Immigrants are entering the country at an unprecedented rate during the Biden administration.”
🎙️ The Mark Levin Show - 2026-10-06 “The Biden administration's decision to stop enforcing sanctions allowed Iran to fund attacks like the one on October 7th.”
🎙️ Morning Wire - 2026-10-06 “The Biden administration's handling of immigration was characterized by criminal negligence.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-06 “Gas prices are currently lower than the peak seen during the Biden administration but remain high on average.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) 🎙️ Bannon's War Room - 2026-10-03 “The Trump administration secured the border and stopped illegal entries.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ The Mark Levin Show 🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) 🎙️ The Dan Bongino Show
M821 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-10-24 · what this is · how the index works