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maxrandb

(15,363 posts)
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 04:47 PM Oct 2019

Since the MSM "Stenographers" are reluctant to name this scandal, can we help?

I find it strange that the media has been able to brand EVERY political scandal since Watergate with a "Gate" monicker, but they have yet to brand this one.

Maybe they are still in the shit covering business for Donnie Short Fingers.

I thought we could help.

I have a few suggestions...

Ukraine-Gate - too obvious

Rudy-Gate

Shakedown-Gate

Traitor-Gate

MAGA-Gate

Any DUers have suggestions?

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Since the MSM "Stenographers" are reluctant to name this scandal, can we help? (Original Post) maxrandb Oct 2019 OP
Traitor-Gate Faux pas Oct 2019 #1
Czargate Cartoonist Oct 2019 #2
Fumi-gate? Triloon Oct 2019 #3
Good one! Silver1 Oct 2019 #21
No Gate, needs its own word. 5X Oct 2019 #4
THIS! HelpImSurrounded Oct 2019 #28
Enemiesatdagate Efilroft Sul Oct 2019 #5
Corrupt-Gate 42bambi Oct 2019 #6
The Broken Right Hinge - Gate Cartaphelius Oct 2019 #7
Ben Dover Gate Cartaphelius Oct 2019 #9
Let's just call it "Trump-gate" sop Oct 2019 #8
I say stick with Ukrainegate Poiuyt Oct 2019 #10
Quid-Pro-House IADEMO2004 Oct 2019 #11
MAGATE Mr. Ected Oct 2019 #12
This! sop Oct 2019 #20
Traitergate just rolls off the tongue randr Oct 2019 #13
The Trump Administration. n/m Hela Oct 2019 #14
If you swap the letters GOP around you get OPG pecosbob Oct 2019 #15
Chicken Kiev Louis1895 Oct 2019 #16
Time to retire canetoad Oct 2019 #17
+1000 HelpImSurrounded Oct 2019 #36
Trussia. Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2019 #18
U-crime...nt Wounded Bear Oct 2019 #19
Ukrainegate works and everybody knows WTF you mean....and it ain't good. nt UniteFightBack Oct 2019 #22
HateGate spanone Oct 2019 #23
Orange-Gate ... Trump is Orange, and Orange is connected to the Ukraine Celerity Oct 2019 #24
Trumpgate says it all. lunatica Oct 2019 #25
QPC for you and me Funtatlaguy Oct 2019 #26
Ukraineium One JHB Oct 2019 #27
Quid-pro-Probe. Quid-probe-Joe? HelpImSurrounded Oct 2019 #29
Perhaps, to expand on your idea - 3catwoman3 Oct 2019 #37
Biden for Dollars HelpImSurrounded Oct 2019 #30
no more GATE nt Grasswire2 Oct 2019 #31
+1000 HelpImSurrounded Oct 2019 #35
Trump would have had a nickname--and GOP would have helped him brand it well before now. NCLefty Oct 2019 #32
Useful Idiot-gate? dem4decades Oct 2019 #33
how about trump gate or orange gate gopiscrap Oct 2019 #34
The Aristocrats jberryhill Oct 2019 #38
so is that all you got? d_r Oct 2019 #39

5X

(3,972 posts)
4. No Gate, needs its own word.
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 04:59 PM
Oct 2019

This will end up being bigger than Watergate or Mironica-Gate.

In 5 or 10 years trump will be known as the worst ever and will have its own
word, we just have to come up with it.

 

Cartaphelius

(868 posts)
7. The Broken Right Hinge - Gate
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 05:11 PM
Oct 2019

Idiot Gate

Hater Gate

Moron Gate

Can' Shoot Straight Gate

Keystone Cop Gate

Hair On Fire Gate

sop

(10,274 posts)
8. Let's just call it "Trump-gate"
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 05:12 PM
Oct 2019

This POS has so many different scandals going on at the same time, it's a lot easier to put them all under one name.

Poiuyt

(18,130 posts)
10. I say stick with Ukrainegate
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 05:14 PM
Oct 2019

Everyone will know exactly what you're talking about. "—gate" has become an accepted part of our lexicon denoting a political scandal.

pecosbob

(7,545 posts)
15. If you swap the letters GOP around you get OPG
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 05:30 PM
Oct 2019

In Russian the acronym OPG stands for Organized Criminal Groups or Prestupnaya, also sometimes referred to as the Bratva or Brotherhood.

canetoad

(17,197 posts)
17. Time to retire
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 06:40 PM
Oct 2019

The -gate suffix. It was a device that served its purpose for four decades but has been well and truly surpassed.

Wait until the investigations and hearings are over and the articles of impeachment drafted. A new and more powerful tag will emerge.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,214 posts)
18. Trussia.
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 07:08 PM
Oct 2019

I.e. Trump and Russia.

Simple and rolls off the tongue.

No more “gates.” This has long eclipsed Watergate.

Celerity

(43,582 posts)
24. Orange-Gate ... Trump is Orange, and Orange is connected to the Ukraine
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 08:03 PM
Oct 2019
Orange Revolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Revolution

The Orange Revolution (Ukrainian: Помаранчева революція, Pomarancheva revolyutsiya) was a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005, in the immediate aftermath of the run-off vote of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, which was claimed to be marred by massive corruption, voter intimidation and electoral fraud.




JHB

(37,163 posts)
27. Ukraineium One
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 08:30 PM
Oct 2019

I take no credit for that, it got coined right out of the gate. I'm a little surprised you missed it.

NCLefty

(3,678 posts)
32. Trump would have had a nickname--and GOP would have helped him brand it well before now.
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 08:39 PM
Oct 2019

From this aspect, the Dem party is slackin'. :p

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