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The Watergate scandal was named after the Watergate office complex. I really don't like it when they just add 'gate' after every scandal. Seems weird to me. What are they calling this scandal? It's very early in the morning this is all I could think of. I know it's bad , maybe you guys have something in mind.
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N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,775 posts)FakeNoose
(32,746 posts)...but that's for lack of something better.
Personally I think we should declare a moratorium on " -gate" references. It's time to come up with something fresh.
Anybody?
TexasProgresive
(12,158 posts)I thought of SewerGate
underpants
(182,877 posts)mopinko
(70,206 posts)lostnfound
(16,189 posts)brooklynite
(94,725 posts)luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)kairos12
(12,871 posts)roamer65
(36,747 posts)boston bean
(36,223 posts)TNLib
(1,819 posts)nt
boston bean
(36,223 posts).99center
(1,237 posts)The MSM may try to rename the scandal but the public will remember at as Golden Showergate.
meow2u3
(24,772 posts)trusty elf
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malaise
(269,157 posts)hahahahaha
HelenWheels
(2,284 posts)Augiedog
(2,548 posts)carries an almost triple entendre. Trump's Waterloo has a nice salaciousness about it, it hardens back to Watergate and it reflects tRumps upcoming epic defeat and his ultimate humiliation and firing.
k8conant
(3,030 posts)mulsh
(2,959 posts)Republican corruption. After the endless Clinton associated "-gates" the suffix has lost its sting. maybe we should just call it Russian Cyber Warfare or Republican Treason.
Those terms don't roll off the tongue and will require weak minded beltway journalists and their readers to do a bit of thinking but they're accurate and reflect the seriousness of the issues.
Stardust Mirror
(358 posts)Flynnghazi
fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)Response to luvMIdog (Original post)
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mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)This chicken needs to be tethered to the entire GOP.
Gop-Russia crime cartel
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Nothing's stuck, and probably shouldn't.
Notably, we had warning well before the election of collusion among members of the Trump campaign with Russia and that Russia was trying to influence our election. Not just a few on the right knowingly colluded in that, everyone who voted for Trump did so knowing they might be aiding Russia's attempt to throw America into serious internal disarray . How do you attach a shallow, flippant little label to that?
malaise
(269,157 posts)The BiglyCon
struggle4progress
(118,334 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)enid602
(8,651 posts)Tinklegate. Hands down.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,198 posts)Where all future political scandals somehow reference his name.
ATL Ebony
(1,097 posts)Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)The English language will be forever changed.
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)csziggy
(34,137 posts)Or at least call the Trump brand to mind. The Trump brand should be forever tarnished and associated with treason - so much so that the family will change their names and attempt to disappear from public view for generations to come.
I thought about "Russia Tower" as a take off on the Le Carre novel Russia House, but that just doesn't fit.