🎙️ What a show tells
The Remnant
- RIGHTour grouping of the show
- 20claims in our motif index
- 28motifs they came up in
⚠️ Stories told, not claims that they're true.
What the show's hosts, guests, callers and the clips they play said, as claims in our words, filed by the shape of the story. "Came up on" the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which.
✍️ Its signature
what it tells far more often than the other shows we follow, and what they tell that it never does; each motif colored by its genre, the layer of story it is
- Archetypesa kind of person
- Plotswhat happened
- Beliefsa premise
- Theorieswhat people think is behind it
- Argumentsa move in an argument
- ⚪ left white, the smaller genres:
- Valueshow things ought to be
- Exhortationsa call to act
✍️ Tells more than others
motifs it tells far more often than the other shows we follow; the bar is how many times more often, by its share of its tellings against theirs
🙈 Others tell, it doesn't
motifs told on the most other shows that never came up on this one; the bar is how many other shows told it
🧩 Its repertoire
every motif its claims came up in, the most first: 28 in all
🎨 What kind of stories: its tellings by genre
🧩 Told most
the motifs its claims came up in, the most first; the bar is how many of its claims
- 📜 Political party surge ×4
- 📜 Flawed system revealed ×1
- 📜 Fallen idol ×1
- 📜 Political retaliation ×1
- 📜 Crush dissent ×1
- 📜 Racist history ×1
- 🎭 Hackers ×1
- 🕵️ It's the economy, stupid ×1
- 📜 Unpopular war ×1
- 🕵️ Polls are manipulated ×1
- 📜 Flailing desperately ×1
- 🎭 Narcissus ×1
- 🪨 Midterm curse ×1
- 📜 In the wilderness ×1
- 🎭 Dead weight president ×1
- 🕵️ Ponzi scheme ×1
- 🎭 The real deal ×1
- 🕵️ Negative partisanship ×1
- ⚖️ America First ×1
- 🕵️ Wealth without well-being ×1
🧩 And then
the bar on the same scale as the first
👯 Tells the most alike
the shows that tell the same motifs in much the same proportions, and the ones that least do; each colored by the show's lean, our loose grouping by reputation
- leans left
- center
- leans right
- not grouped by lean
👯 Most alike
the shows whose motifs overlap most with its own, whatever their lean; the bar is how alike (100%: the same motifs in the same proportions)
🙃 Least alike
the shows with the least in common with it; the bar is how alike, on the same scale
🎙️ Lately on the show
its latest claims, in our words, with their motifs
- 2026-11-07 “Donald Trump is damaging the Republican Party and the American people through his narcissistic behavior and policies.”
🧩 Unpopular war 🧩 Narcissus - 2026-11-02 “It is very likely that Democrats will take control of the House of Representatives.”
🧩 Political party surge - 2026-11-02 “Democrats have a favorable momentum in the midterm elections.”
🧩 Political party surge - 2026-11-02 “Democrats are going to sweep both the House and the Senate in the midterms.”
🧩 Political party surge 🧩 The markets know - 2026-10-28 “The French schooling system is failing because public services are being run into the ground.”
🧩 Flawed system revealed - 2026-10-26 “Woodrow Wilson resegregated the federal government and jailed his political opponents.”
🧩 Fallen idol 🧩 Political retaliation 🧩 Crush dissent 🧩 Racist history - 2026-10-24 “Trump will veto everything if Democrats regain control of Congress.”
🧩 Don't hand him a win - 2026-10-21 “Republicans lack a unified message to explain their role in the current economic situation.”
🧩 It's the economy, stupid - 2026-10-19 “Socialism in America means replacing American workers with foreign workers and letting boys play in girls' sports.”
🧩 America First 🧩 Men in women's sports 🧩 They took our jobs - 2026-10-07 “Politics is a way of building friendship and learning to live with people who disagree.”
🧩 More in common - 2026-10-05 “Cyber theft has become a core part of the North Korean economy.”
🧩 Hackers 🧩 Sanctions aren't working - 2026-10-05 “Current government entitlement spending is unsustainable because a growing number of elderly recipients are supported by a shrinking pool of workers.”
🧩 Ponzi scheme - 2026-10-05 “Modern American social dysfunctions are enabled by the country's extreme level of wealth.”
🧩 Wealth without well-being - 2026-10-03 “Democrats currently have momentum in the polls.”
🧩 Political party surge 🧩 Big Mo - 2026-10-03 “Polls are often used to influence outcomes rather than predict them.”
🧩 Polls are manipulated - 2026-10-03 “The GOP is flailing because they are about to lose the midterms.”
🧩 Flailing desperately - 2026-10-03 “The political environment is bad for Republicans and getting worse.”
🧩 Midterm curse 🧩 Dead weight president - 2026-10-03 “Democrats are primarily reacting to Trump rather than offering original or interesting ideas.”
🧩 In the wilderness 🧩 Negative partisanship - 2026-10-03 “Politicians who break away from homogenized speech patterns achieve more stickiness with their audiences.”
🧩 The real deal - 2026-10-03 “Polls as snapshots are less useful than looking at polling as data points in trends.”
🧩 A snapshot, not a prediction