🧩 BND Motif Index · M1934
The dog ate my homework
Officials who miss a vote or a duty offer a stock excuse, traffic, a delay, an emergency, and tellers mock it as too convenient, compare the stories for a script and suspect the absence was planned, paid for or forced.
📜 Plots🗂️ Accountability🗂️ Bad faith
- 1claim filed under it
- 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.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Didn't even show up
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “Okay, it's starting to look more and more like the traffic was a bullshit excuse.” “Presumably they either a/ really DID get stuck in traffic or b/ were paid / threatened.” “Probably all at the same intersection if they’re keeping their stories straight.”
🧶 Its claims
what people have said in this shape, summed up in our words: their claims, not ours, and not checked unless a fact-checker is named; newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Retold online 1
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-11-12 “Democrats' excuse that traffic made them miss the impeachment vote is called bullshit, and some suspect they were paid or threatened.” — told by people online
M1934 · first seen 2026-11-12 · what this is · how the index works