🧩 BND Motif Index · M383
Good old boys
Insiders are said to run things as a club, rich, connected, mostly men, that covers for its members and favors its own. The club is no secret; what the tellers add is that a pardon or a cover-up came from membership.
- 5claims filed under it
- 1center show it came up on
- 1right show 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.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
↔️ answers and mirrors:
- 🧩 Not all men Not all men answers Good old boys
⏱️ answered 21 days after this was first told here (2026-09-12 → 2026-10-03)
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Campus sexual assault 🧩 Elite cabal 🧩 Off on a technicality 🧩 Political dynasty
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 0
🦗 none of our left shows, so far
⚖️ center 1
🐘 right 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.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Cornell president addresses handling of rape allegations 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 “Decades of scandals at campus institutions include recent gang-rape allegations at Cornell.”
🎙️ Forum (KQED) - 2026-10-15 “The Cornell 7 case involves people engaging in sordid behavior that can ruin their lives.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-05 “Cornell University and its affiliated fraternities are complicit in covering up sexual assault and rape, particularly involving wealthy, entitled young men.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-09-12 “Greg Abbott is part of a wealthy 'good old boys club' that favors the rich over the middle class” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
- 2026-09-12 “Ken Paxton pardoned a friend who was a child molester.” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
M383 · first seen 2026-10-05 · last 2026-10-15 · what this is · how the index works