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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow does the Trump-Russia thing NOT have a name?
Everything is a "____gate" these days. Hell even in football they had a "gate".
But this doesn't. Not that I've seen anyway. There's no goto short reference to the 7 or so elements of this thing.
How is that possible? Is this "no name gate"?
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(52,580 posts)Luciferous
(6,090 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)I'm not the puppet... YOU'RE the puppet.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)world wide wally
(21,762 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)republicans and their Draft-&-Tax-Dodger-in-Chief sold America out to the russians and their evil freaking mob.
It's TraitorGate (R).
Orangepeel
(13,935 posts)Bigger than a "gate"
Love it!
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Orangepeel
(13,935 posts)I was proud of it, but I've tried to use it twice now, and it's not getting any traction. 🙁 I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes it!
Wounded Bear
(58,832 posts)to the point of being trivialized.
We need a new meme. Perhaps one will emerge from this clusterfuck.
underpants
(183,170 posts)and the herd mentality being what it is results in everyone calling it that.
"Brexit" was coined by a Brit newspaper for example.
RedWedge
(618 posts)"Russia-a-Lago" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, but I kind of love it.
unblock
(52,580 posts)or, when kids are watching, fustercluck....
nolabels
(13,133 posts)You won't need to pump this one up
shraby
(21,946 posts)WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)makes a not certain hash tag on Twitter so I'm using it until I see something better.
Although I agree '-gate' has been rather over used I think this time it's a rather appropriate to use it since it brings to some minds memories of Nixon/Watergate... although I think this is going to be far worse.
FSogol
(45,616 posts)Response to underpants (Original post)
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MurrayDelph
(5,312 posts)JHB
(37,170 posts)Last edited Mon Mar 6, 2017, 05:31 PM - Edit history (1)
(Said in best "narrator from Rocky & Bullwinkle" voice)
SeattleVet
(5,489 posts)William Conrad, who later had his own show ('Cannon').
PatSeg
(47,833 posts)I think the reason we don't have just one is that there are so many scandals associated with Trump, so that just his name connotes scandal. Some day we may find the word "trump" in the dictionary is synonymous with scandal.
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