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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDONALDgate. Pass it on.
That's what we should call the new trump effort to SMEAR President Obama with nothing more than baseless innuendo.
Donaldgate.
Donaldgate.
DONALDgate.
DONALD-gate.
Donald-gate.
How ever you wish to write it.
DONALDGATE.
Pass it on.
Let's attack him at his strength: repetition and catchy phrasing - and did I forget REPETITION?
DONALDGATE.
Pushback required. And repeat. Because it's necessary.
Donaldgate.
We can make this "a thing." Join me?
calimary
(81,527 posts)And shared and spread around.
Kid Berwyn
(14,999 posts)The most corrupt Administration in history.
calimary
(81,527 posts)WE TOO can do calculated strategic messaging. He's not the only one.
Kid Berwyn
(14,999 posts)You are spot-on, calimary!
Have you read the latest from Lucian K. Truscott?
"Obamagate" and "Lock her up": Pointing the way toward "Heil Trump"
Its not just a chant at Trump's rallies or lame wordplay in his tweets. Its his call to fascist rule
https://www.salon.com/2020/05/16/obamagate-and-lock-her-up-pointing-the-way-toward-heil-trump/
MyOwnPeace
(16,940 posts)How many charges and indictments did we have in the 8 years of the OBAMA administration?
Yeah, those are numbers that even a MAGAT can count with their raised fist - ZERO!!!!!!!
OK, and now on to DONALDGATE.............................
Done counting yet?
What's that?
Oh, yeah, we knew that's what you would say..........
"LOCK HER UP!"
Kid Berwyn
(14,999 posts)Cant wait to hear their testimony.
MyOwnPeace
(16,940 posts)I guess nobody can order them NOT to testify should anybody care to hear what they might have to say (my guess is that there is no Senate committee or sub-committee [RepubliCons control and set the agenda] that will provide the opportunity for such discussions........).
calimary
(81,527 posts)#Donaldgate
calimary
(81,527 posts)As usual, donald is building another mental "hotel" based on nothing. On a "foundation" made of air. VERY THIN air at that. He is the embodiment of a castle build on sand. Can't wait for the tide to roll in and wash him away!
MyOwnPeace
(16,940 posts)that are providing the damned DAM to protect his pathetic A$$!
And it is Moscow Mitch McTurtle standing at the gate controlling it all.
calimary
(81,527 posts)We need to vote more of them OUT in November!
#Donaldgate. Pass it on. Let's mark OUR territory, 'eh?
MyOwnPeace
(16,940 posts)Quite a great article from a recent New Yorker magazine about Moscow Mitch - the Trump "Enabler-in-Chief."
Very revealing about what a low-life McTurtle really is (as if we didn't know ).
Hope it will open without subscription:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/how-mitch-mcconnell-became-trumps-enabler-in-chief
duforsure
(11,885 posts)As Putin has done with others in Russia. Hmmmmmm!
calimary
(81,527 posts)Donaldgate has MANY forms. It's a toxic many-headed hydra. So let this be an antidote to its sting.
calimary
(81,527 posts)So it gets seen.
DrToast
(6,414 posts)calimary
(81,527 posts)#DONALDGATE
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,052 posts)calimary
(81,527 posts)It IS a many-headed hydra. Toxic as can be.
Donaldgate.
Maybe I should put it this way: #Donaldgate. Whaddya think?
calimary
(81,527 posts)I like it!
Thank you for helping this, guys!
bucolic_frolic
(43,369 posts)Use it in replies to progressives you follow, and in all posts you make. Seed the media. Make it trend. Google search, SEO it. Make it go.
calimary
(81,527 posts)I shall take your advice, happily!
Sharing it with some Indivisible friends, too.
Make it go! Hope you'll help! Your advice is too good NOT to be taken (and run with)!
bucolic_frolic
(43,369 posts)we're generating higher quality ideas here on DU than ever before. But then I'm not a lifer.
Understand that it may catch wind, and it may not, but you never know when seeds sprout in a few weeks or a couple months, because the 10 people helping tell ten who tell ten and the Twitter machines tells thousands. Your idea could be the one that hits home with 10 households and delivers margin in a swing seat, or a close Senate race, or recall Florida 2000. This is reminiscent of email campaigns we ran on Yahoo Groups in '00 and '04. Every good idea must be maxed out to see if it flies.
Brainstorm your idea to the max. On paper or digital. Define it, over and over. Make it strong as it can be. Find help. I don't know what I could do. I know there is SEO, do I have any idea what it involves for political ideas? No. But someone from liberal sites does, and will offer 10 minutes advice. Ask. Email. Search.
Something that exposes Trump's motives and sticks would be worth gold.
Brother Mythos
(1,442 posts)I'm thinking something like "Turdgate," or the much more polite "Cloroxgate."
calimary
(81,527 posts)I like Donaldgate because it brands him.
He's all about getting his stupid fucking toxic name out there and slapping it on everything, even buildings he doesn't own. He's like a dog that pees all over the place in an attempt to mark its territory. Let's help mark HIM!
No reason why the point can't be enlarged, though, as you have just done, Brother Mythos.
'Cause, DAMMIT, we have to PUSH BACK, DAMMIT!
Brother Mythos
(1,442 posts)He uses "Trump" as in The Trump Organization, Trump Tower(s), Trump International Hotel(s), Trump Shuttle, Trump Winery, Trump University, Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka ...
So, if you want to specifically mark Trump, and hit what he values most (HIS MONEY), then I recommend you mark his "brand." Call it "Trumpgate."
But, it's your call.
calimary
(81,527 posts)Just adjusted my sig line accordingly.
Either way we win. But I get your point about the branding. My daddy was a salesman. #Trumpgate works too.
Brother Mythos
(1,442 posts)pandr32
(11,631 posts)Obama is a last name and he was known as President Obama. If we really want to turn it back on DT for trying to stir up trouble than Trumpgate is the tit-for-tat response. We should use the slur so open it becomes offensive. The thing is--there is actually plenty of meat to put in the charge. What crimes and cover-ups has DT NOT been involved with. He is as corrupt as they come--bad to the bone.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Add Trumpandemic, TrumpVirus too. He is the root cause of the loss of so very many lives, plus the loss of jobs, desperate people in line for food. HE caused it ALL.
calimary
(81,527 posts)See, all these terms are just exquisite additions to strengthen the case, the portfolio, AND another arrow in our quiver.
He truly did cause it all. Just about anything that now ails our country can be traced back directly to him.
He's the gateway, alright.
#Donaldgate.
malaise
(269,225 posts)calimary
(81,527 posts)Pass it on!
malaise
(269,225 posts)Will keep it going - great idea
calimary
(81,527 posts)I just now adjusted my sig line accordingly.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,026 posts)calimary
(81,527 posts)calimary
(81,527 posts)He's into branding? Well, okay then! Game ON! Now WE brand HIM.
His name is his strength? Then we steal a page from kkkarl rove's playbook and use his strength against him. Attack him at his strength - his name - that he plasters all over everywhere and even makes deals to stick it on buildings he doesn't own. Like a dog that pees on everything when you're taking him/her out for a walk. It's an act of marking territory. And notice - he does his in "gold-tone." Matching the urine-color he likes to surround himself with. From the top of his Brillo-pad hair (or is that a large shredded wheat biscuit?) on down.
#Donaldgate! Pass it on!
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)calimary
(81,527 posts)#Donaldgate
#Trumpgate
Brother Mythos
(1,442 posts)If not, then why has Trump suddenly gone from being "anti-vaccine" to "pro-vaccine?"
Is he, as some have speculated, looking for yet another way to to monetize the Trump Pandemic? Is he, and his cohorts, investing heavily in pharmaceutical stocks? With all the secrecy surrounding his finances, we won't know the truth until after he is removed from office.
calimary
(81,527 posts)WHY ELSE should we think that he was pounding away at hydroxychoroquine? WHY ELSE? He was pushing it like a drug dealer! Pushing it as though he were a one-man Madison Avenue ad campaign for Prevagen or macaroni 'n' cheese or Tide detergent (cuz daughter and kids just moved back in) or something.
wnylib
(21,668 posts)it fits more than Trump's phony accusations about Obama.
It is also about Trump's terrible failure of leadership in the coronavirus crisis.
calimary
(81,527 posts)BOTH Donaldgate AND Trumpgate work.
If he's gonna try to stick a "gate" on Obama's name, then let's all stick "gate" onto HIS!
wnylib
(21,668 posts)he has genuinely earned.
Jack-o-Lantern
(974 posts)calimary
(81,527 posts)And as long as you werent specifically named after him, thats okay.
Im guessing there may not be as many little Donalds coming up in the next few years - after this hideous era. A few knuckledraggers might do it because theyre wholly owned subsidiaries anyway. But I doubt itll be a majority thing.
For example, we dont see that many Adolfs walking around out there, do we?