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False statements about wiretaps at Trump Tower.
False statements about unmasking.
False statesments about a political spy in the Trump campaign.
False statements about the Mueller investigation that has indicted the Presidents top staff.
Its not spy-gate, only lie-gate.
5:27 AM - 24 May 2018
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mnhtnbb
(31,382 posts)DownriverDem
(6,228 posts)where trump admitted that he is just playing Americans with spygate. Help us all. I find every day more and more disgusting with trump.
Stuart G
(38,417 posts)Freethinker65
(10,009 posts)#liegate
It is unfortunate that many voters can be manipulated by who has the catchiest slogans.
riversedge
(70,187 posts)malaise
(268,930 posts)Get thee to the greatest page
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)malaise
(268,930 posts)The entire Con presidency is LIEGATE!!
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)republicans will roast in hell for their unpatriotic lying...
superpatriotman
(6,247 posts)Why not Snitch or Rat?
That's what he means.
spanone
(135,823 posts)dalton99a
(81,451 posts)Tom Rinaldo
(22,912 posts)The biggest political scandal in our lifetimes (that includes folks over 100) is a President who consistently lies to the American People.
calimary
(81,220 posts)Lets fight branding with branding. OUR branding.
WE should decide what to call this. Im not gonna use his words. That just reinforces them and helps them sink in.
And LIE-gate is SO much more accurate and appropriate.
My only question would be - how to write it. For maximum clarity and impact.
Liegate?
LIEgate?
LIE-gate?
Which works best? Liegate seems to me to be the least effective, visually, because it doesnt direct you to the point - which is the LIE part.
So Id go with one of the other two. The LIE part is whats most important, and what deserves the greatest emphasis. Seems to me, just regarding marketing and mending and branding, if you want to open their eyes, maybe you gotta punch em in the nose (FIGURATIVELY speaking, of course).
pangaia
(24,324 posts)calimary
(81,220 posts)and make it OURS. And use it like theres no tomorrow!
pangaia
(24,324 posts)no more of this-- mis-spoke gate.
calimary
(81,220 posts)Elevate it and give it a lot of calcium supplement!
calimary
(81,220 posts)When it's written out, visually, as opposed to spoken, it can be written in a way as to distinguish it. That's why I often capitalize words. It's for emphasis. Physical emphasis. Even if you're just skimming the thread and aren't actively reading each post, you can't help but notice a capitalized word or phrase. It kinda sticks out from the rest of the text.
I'd suggest LIE-gate, or LIEgate without the hyphen. Drawing added attention to the money syllable by capitalizing it (the LIE part) is driving the point home. REALLY "telling it like it is" and WHAT it is.
Bonus points for the visual aid making it obvious how you pronounce it!
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Tell the WHOLE truth..
LIES LIES LIES....
Keep up the good work..
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Thank You Senator Adam Schiff. Liegate is more fitting .
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)He's a Representative from California.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)usaf-vet
(6,181 posts)#liegate not spygate
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)R B Garr
(16,950 posts)I also wish the media would interrupt Trump when he tells them they (or everyone) is calling it "spy-gate" and ask for an example of which network and which person called it "spygate". Don't just let him talk.
Love Adam Schiff!
Boomerproud
(7,951 posts)Come on CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC and NPR!!!!!!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Just say, "If this is one of the greatest political scandals ever, as Trump has claimed, why is he taking a long weekend to sit around, watch TV, golf, and tweet? Why isn't he doing something to exonerate himself? If he's not taking 'Spygate' seriously, why should anyone else?"
Demsrule86
(68,552 posts)This was on CNN...so not listening to CNN much...the 'they all do it' is getting to be too much.