Time to retire the "-gate" suffix

[canetoad]

Since Watergate, practically every scandal, large or small has been tagged with the -gate suffix.
See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scandals_with_%22-gate%22_suffix

The current political scandal is said to be bigger and more far reaching than even Watergate and IMO deserves it's own name.

Thoughts?

[DavidDvorkin]

1. Gategate!

[canetoad]

6. Someone had to say it

Literally LOLd at that.

[HopeAgain]

2. How about

The end of democracy?

[regnaD kciN]

3. You mean we can't call this "Treasongate"...?

[NurseJackie]

4. Incident. Affair. Scandal.

[Solly Mack]

5. The Orange Clusterfuck of 2017

[SticksnStones]

7. The Big FlynnFlam

[cwydro]

26. That's a good one.

[LeftInTX]

8. My favorite was India's Coalgate

And yes, they sell Colgate toothpaste in India.

[Blanks]

9. Good plan...

It's a tough one to replace though.

Where did Trump stay in Russia?

The watergate is a hotel/residence after all. Dole lived there (he might still).

It requires 2 parts to it so that it can be broken up as a suffix or prefix.

What's the name of Trump's place in Florida where the photos of the 'football' we're taken? That's two words. Mar-a-Lago

The football photos could be the Mar-a-Largo scandal (and the whole flashlight thing). The Flynn scandal could be the Flynn-a-Largo scandal. The hacking of the election could be the hack-a-Largo or Putin-Lago scandal. You get the idea.

[elehhhhna]

11. Mar a Nation

Mir a Lago

[elehhhhna]

12. GOP - Glasnost or Prison

[elehhhhna]

10. Treasonous motherfuckers sounds about right. Republicomrade might also work.

GOP Goats of Putin?

[madokie]

13. As a person who watched most of the Watergate hearings

I disagree with you. I think it denotes the criminality in a way most people can relate too

[mikelewis]

14. Something akin to the Rape of Nanking...

or the Iran Contra Scandal... that had a ring to it.

[phylny]

15. We could always "-ghazi" it.

You know:

GOPghazi
Trumpghazi
Russiaghazi
Treasonghazi
Putinghazi

[True Dough]

30. Flynnghazi as well n/t

[phylny]

32. That's a good one.

I think if we're going to -ghazi it, it has to tie back to Trumplethinskin somehow.

[True Dough]

33. I think there might be multiple opportunities to play this "name game"

while the Dumpster fire burns in the White House.

[Fast Walker 52]

16. anything that ends with "treasonous motherfuckers" works for me

[JHB]

17. -nik

Back in the 1980s conservatives called activists working for a freeze on nuclear weapons "freeze-niks", claiming they were playing into Soviet hands, either as dupes or active agents. Either way, they were undermining national security to the advantage of the Rooskies, the thought went.

The Trumpniks fit that description much better than the freeze movement ever did.

[trof]

18. The Outrage

[McCamy Taylor]

19. Hell no! This is Watergate II.

[TexasProgresive]

20. Kremlinsluice

[Generic Brad]

21. "-Gate" has been Trumped?

This whole debacle is a clustertrump.

[Maeve]

23. I like "clustertrump"

Great term for it!

[boston bean]

22. Yeah "trumped". We've all been trumped.

[CK_John]

24. Call it "spygate", IMO.................

[MrScorpio]

25. Trumpsauce

Let's put some "-sauce" on that shit.

[enid602]

27. tinklegate

Personally, I'd like to see SCROTUS remembrref forr Tinklegate.

[Iggo]

28. The Time When The Republicans Ran An Honest To Goodness Russian Spy.

...And They Didn't Care Because He Was A Republican.

Too wordy?

[RedWedge]

29. YES GOD

[Takket]

31. what's the Russian word for "coup"?

[WinkyDink]

40. "Trump."

[TrekLuver]

34. How bout "Bigger than Watergate" LOL

[mahatmakanejeeves]

35. It should incorporate gold, as ***** is so enamored of that.

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Goldfingers? That's trite, but it incorporates *****'s well known distress about having his tiny fingers made fun of.

[jO456]

36. Call it the Great Donald Sh!tstorm

[Massacure]

37. The Gatey McGate Scandal

Hey, it ends in scandal, not gate.

[brush]

38. "... ghazi" works.

[WinkyDink]

39. I kinda like "Borscht-gate."

[mahatmakanejeeves]

42. Faulty Tower

It's a play on ***** Tower.