🧩 BND Motif Index · M177
Boy who cried wolf
The people warning of disaster have been wrong before, so this warning can be ignored too.
- 3claims filed under it
- 2left shows it came up on
- 1center show it came up on
- 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
🪜 rests on 🧩 Proven liar
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Cassandra 🧩 Threat inflation
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
⚖️ center 1
🐘 right 0
🦗 none of our right shows, so far
"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
- 2026-10-07 “Iran does not possess the capability to strike the United States.”
🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) - 2026-10-05 “The Republican strategy of labeling Democrats as radicals or socialists is failing to resonate with voters.”
🎙️ The Bulwark Podcast 🎙️ WSJ What's News - 2026-09-22 “The people who warned of climate change, the 'Russia hoax' and the 'Ukraine hoax' are the same people 'now saying that AI is going to kill us all.'” 🔎 PolitiFact
M177 · first seen 2026-10-05 · last 2026-09-22 · what this is · how the index works