I am increasingly convinced that more than half the planet thinks the word “gate” simply means scandal and that Nixon’s troubles were aquatic
@Daojoan As a little antidote, the folks behind the https://www.electoral-vote.com/ website/blog have collected a bunch of different ones that they throw in from time to time instead of -gate, so for instance they've referred to such things as “SignalGate" as the Teapot Signal Scandal, and other variations.