Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Let’s not pretend [Trump] wants to engage in high-minded discourse.”

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

There is one struggling party in US right now, and it’s not the Democrats.

The jury literally has a bell they can ring to force Trump to show up on command. Greatest thing ever!

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you don’t.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

It’s a doggy dog world.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

Giving up is unforgivable. ~Joe Biden

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

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How do you spell “Teapot Dome” in Cyrillic?

(But if there’s a posthumous Trump WH sex scandal, I’m not sure I wanna think about the parameters.)

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  2. 2.

    Yarrow

    Does this scandal have a name yet? All the big scandals since Watergate have been something-gates. Russia-gate sounds stupid and this scandal seems much bigger than a -gate. All the cool scandals get their own name. Watergate. Teapot Dome. What’s this one going to be?

    Edit: Iran-Contra wasn’t a -gate. So I guess it got its own name too.

  6. 6.

    efgoldman

    @Yarrow:

    Iran-Contra wasn’t a -gate.

    It should have been!

    Trump devotees like Gordan & Carter Page are throwin’ themselves on their swords to save Sessions sayin’ “You can’t indict us all.”

    Yeah, well, that’s what Tricksie Dicksie Nixie’s gang said, too. And they were better at it.

  7. 7.

    Ninedragonspot

    @Yarrow: I nominate “Trumpshchina” (or, if you prefer a Russian spelling, “Trampshchina”). The “-shchina” suffix roughly corresponds to “-gate”, “affair”, or “business”.

  11. 11.

    Mnemosyne

    @Yarrow:

    I tend to agree that this scandal is so big that it’s going to rate its own name. Only dinky scandals get “-gate” attached to them.

    I’d like to work “stolen election” into the name somewhere, but I’m not always good at being succinct.

  15. 15.

    Jack Canuck

    I remember hearing Iran-Contra referred to as Contragate, though I don’t recall how prevalent it was. Definitely there though.

  16. 16.

    Yarrow

    I’ve seen the hashtag #trumprussia used, but it seems useful only as a hashtag. Doesn’t have a lot of zing.

  18. 18.

    Ninedragonspot

    @Yarrow: “shchina” pronounced as “shh-chee-na”. Accent would fall on “Trump”.

    (For another famous -shchina, see Musorgsky’s opera “Khovanshchina”)

  19. 19.

    bemused senior

    @Chet Murthy: OT did you get a response to your questions about Rapid Response teams? I have received information from FIABA about trainings. If you are interested I could pass it along. Perhaps Adam could pass on my email if so.

  22. 22.

    Emerald

    Keeping it simple, I prefer just the simple “Treason” to describe this debacle.

    Yeah, I think that will do.

  27. 27.

    sigaba

    “Watergate” is a pithy name but it sorta obscures what the whole scandal was about. The whole break-in was just a tiny part of the whole thing. It’s like if we called the 2003 Iraq incursion the Yellowcake War.

    There are a lot of people in this country who know there was a thing called “Watergate,” that it was bad, and that Richard Nixon had to resign because of it, but a lot of these people don’t really have a concrete idea of what Nixon did.

  29. 29.

    efgoldman

    @janeform:

    I had a feeling you’d figure that one out:-).

    I played it in high school and college, and conducted it (and the preceding Baba Yaga) for my advanced conducting final in college. Always, always loved it.

  30. 30.

    Frankensteinbeck

    ‘The Trump Presidency.’ It won’t need another name. It encompasses his administration since before day one.

  31. 31.

    RandomMonster

    I think “The Siberian Candidate” still manages to pack a lot of ideas into one memorable term.

  32. 32.

    Chet Murthy

    @bemused senior: bemused, thanks for asking. I found a local group, contacted them, they have my info & will get in touch at some point. I’m 52, so maybe not their ideal demo. We’ll see.

  33. 33.

    efgoldman

    @RandomMonster:

    I think “The Siberian Candidate” still manages to pack a lot of ideas into one memorable term.

    I think that one’s really good, too, but it assumes someone is familiar with the book or one of the movies.

  34. 34.

    Beautifulplumage

    Dear Raspey,
    I recently built a beautiful boder wall but I feel bigly that something’s missing. Can you help?
    Signed, Juan B. DIcktater

    Dear Juan,
    Yes; putin-gate.
    Signed, Old Rasp.

  37. 37.

    jl

    @Yarrow:

    ” Does this scandal have a name yet? ”

    Sure as hell does: the Trump Administration.
    High energy winners get shit named after them. People will be using ‘Trump Administration; for a long time, my boy. A long time.
    After a while, might be rehabilitated enough to use in polite company.

  39. 39.

    jc

    Surely President TrumPutin has the country’s best interests at heart … right? TrumPutin-gate?

  40. 40.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @jc: Donald only has his own best interests, which are fluid, in mind at any one time. If they happen to coincide with the country’s, great. If they don’t, fuck the country. Donald is the center of the universe.

  45. 45.

    Ian

    @Yarrow:
    The ending of every scandal in -gate is merely a sign and a symptom of our collapsing fourth estate. Too lazy to figure out a new name, too constrained by their peers to break the norm and do ‘joor-nulmalism’ thing or whatever it’s called.

  46. 46.

    Ian

    @sigaba:

    a lot of these people don’t really have a concrete idea of what Nixon did

    Or that what he resigned for is pennies on the dollar compared to what he did in SE Asia or to the civil rights activists or the BPP in the United States.

  48. 48.

    Taylor

    If you are not watching “Z” on TCM, you should watch it later on your DVR or TCM Watch.

    Although about the rise of the Colonels in Greece, it is a vision of this country in the near future.

  49. 49.

    Taylor

    @Yarrow: The practice of putting -gate at the end of the name of every scandal is due to William Safire.

    He was Nixon’s speechwriter. He wanted to reduce the potency of Watergate.

  50. 50.

    Shalimar

    I assume it will be called “Russia?!?!?!?!?!?!” but I am still asleep so probably not.

  51. 51.

    Jeffro

    Man, Fox News is disgusting…

    I’m standing here in my hotel’s lobby waiting for the Starbucks to open and they have several news channels on the TV screens … The fox news one has a chryon that says things like “Dem double standard”…”coverage comparison: 7x more mainstream media coverage of sessions than Holder”…” photo shows Pelosi meeting with Russian ambassador”…”operation revenge: are Obama leftovers behind leaks”

    All of this while showing clips from Paul Ryan and Rush Limbaugh calling it a “silent coup”

    Ka-Ray-Zee

  52. 52.

    bystander

    @amk:

    #magagate

    Anytime you get to make a gagging sound while referring to your enemy is special.

  54. 54.

    Comrade Nimrod Humperdink

    The catchy name won’t emerge until people finally know who did what and when and why. Everyone in Cheetolini’s orbit, including Republican Congressional leadership that’s been covering for his shouty, demented, cowardly ass, will likely be touched by this at some point. The only questions are how long it will take to come out and by what mechanisms. I’m sure cafepress is eagerly awaiting the bumpersticker opportunities.

  55. 55.

    NotMax

    @Jeffro

    Man, Fox News is disgusting…

    Yes, yes it is.

    Starbucks is also disgusting, albeit at a different level.

  57. 57.

    J R in WV

    @Jeffro:

    Hey, FAUX News: Maybe Sessionski is getting 8 times more news coverage because Attorney GEneral and leader of the Justice Department who commits treason is an order of magnitude more important a story than any story about the Justice Department ever in the past 40 years!!!

    Duh! Assholes.

    Nazis of Faux News, another scandal needing more coverage from the real news media.

  60. 60.

    Comrade Nimrod Humperdink

    @NotMax: Burned overpriced coffee, a faux coffeeshop atmosphere, and oversaturating at a loss to drive out all the competition might be crimes, but they won’t accidentally start a war, agreed. Now all I’m thinking of is the old Lewis Black bit about the end of the universe:

    Probably not just Houston

  67. 67.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    The 2020-2030 era should have been about public infrastructure investment in high speed rail, universality of net access, and enhancing the health care outcome improvements of the ACA.

    Instead, winning Democrats will be stuck with reestablishing NOAA, the EPA and the NSF, while arguing with Thiel and Mnuchin over their tax rates.

  68. 68.

    Lurking Canadian

    @Jeffro: I just don’t get it. The entire conservative movement has decided to nail its colors to the mast of the Trump administration ? In defense of the principle that there’s nothing wrong with colluding with a foreign power to win an election? Seriously? Why not keep the policies and throw the man under the bus to protect the party? At this rate, the shit is going to splash on everybody but McMullin.

  69. 69.

    Jeffro

    @Lurking Canadian: at this point it’s “in for a penny, in for a pound”. The time is long past where they could have disavowed Trump and possibly, maybe, not cracked the GOP into itty bitty pieces. But by bowing to the Mercers and Kochs, by not standing for anything other than opposing Obama, this is what it’s gotten them

  71. 71.

    zhena gogolia

    @Yarrow:

    It would be something like TrahmpSHEENuh. I’m oversimplifying the middle consonant, but good enough. It’s great because the -shchina suffix has a negative connotation, as in Pugachevshchina (the Pugachev rebellion).

    ETA: Ninedragonspot is right, stress falls on the TRAMP

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