🧩 BND Motif Index · M871
Owning the libs
A party is said to care more about angering the other side than about governing, running fighters and trolls over people who would serve.
🕵️ Theories🗂️ Political Performance
- 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
🪜 rests on 🧩 Cut off your nose to spite your face
↔️ answers and mirrors:
- 🧩 Spineless leadership mirror: a party too timid to fight, against one that fights only to anger the other side
⏱️ told here 8 days after its answer (2026-10-03 → 2026-10-11)
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Ken Paxton accuses John Cornyn of hoping he loses Texas Senate race in leaked audio 2026-10-09 to 2026-10-10
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-11 “The Texas GOP is failing by prioritizing 'owning the libs' and running bad candidates like Paxton over the actual needs of the electorate.” 🧶 people online
M871 · first seen 2026-10-11 · what this is · how the index works