🧩 BND Motif Index · M865
Look at California
The state's numbers, the highest gas prices, poverty, unemployment and homelessness, are held up as proof of what one party's rule does.
🗣️ Arguments🗂️ Pocketbook🗂️ Horserace
- 5claims filed under it
- 1center show it came up on
- 3right shows it came up on
⚠️ 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
🎙️ 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
"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
- 2026-10-24 “Blue states are unaffordable because of high taxes, energy costs, and housing prices.”
🎙️ The Mark Levin Show - 2026-10-23 “California is being driven into the ground by lunatics led by Gavin Newsom.”
🎙️ The Dan Bongino Show - 2026-10-14 “The climate movement has caused Democrats to shut down refineries and stop all new refinery construction.”
🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show - 2026-10-11 “California has the highest unemployment and poverty rates in the country.”
🎙️ Forum (KQED) - 2026-10-11 “California has the highest gas prices in the nation.”
🎙️ Surrounded (Jubilee)
M865 · first seen 2026-10-11 · last 2026-10-24 · what this is · how the index works