In the U.S.A., whenever there is a political scandal with a president, we add "gate" to the end of a word to describe the scandal because of the name of the Watergate hotel where the then President's men committed crimes on his behalf in the early 1970's.

It has been more than 50 years that we have stuck with this odd tradition. I wonder if it will actually ever stop. I wonder how many young people actually get the connection now, and how many think that the Watergate scandal had to do with water.

#Watergate
#SignalGate
#GateGate

Now that you are grieving about #JeffBezos & the #WashingtonPost:

How about taking the opportunity to start a #reader-owned #newspaper #cooperative or an #audience-owned #media cooperative!?

Plenty of examples exist; several of them in #Germany alone.

I'd very much be interested to partake.

🏷️ #WaPo #Bezos #AllThePresidentsMen #JonathanCapeheart #BobWoodward #CarlBernstein #Watergate #Nixon #Trump #MAGA #HowFascismWorks #Amazon #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg #Musk #Zuckerberg #Distributism #Coop

The mid-1970s, when #Carter took office, was a time of US retrenchment. The twin shocks of #Watergate and #Vietnam had caused loss of confidence in US politicians and institutions. The #Arab-#Israel|i #War of 1973 was followed by #Saudi-led oil embargo.
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/jimmy-carter-vs-iran-the-untold-story-revealed-in-the-archives-052d4c5d?mod=wknd_pos1