[Ads-l] Taking nominations

[Laurence Horn]

> On Sep 26, 2019, at 2:14 PM, Dave Wilton <dave at WILTON.NET> wrote:
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> I would go with "Kyiv Pro Quo."
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> ("Quid Pro Kyiv" appeared in a Vox article, but I think my version is more mellifluous.)

Not bad at all.  Too bad the so-called Russian Pee Tapes and their purported cover-up never amounted to anything; that would have posed less of a challenge.
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> I've also seen on Twitter: "Stupid Watergate II: Electric Waterloo"
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> (John Oliver calls the Russian collusion affair "Stupid Watergate.")
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> From today’s coverage in the NYT Online (emphasis added):
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> Other allegations from the whistle-blower:
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> 	• Attorney General William Barr and the president’s personal lawyer Rudolph Giuliani were central to the effort to compel Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his family.
> 	• White House officials were “deeply disturbed by what had transpired in the phone call” because they “had witnessed the President abuse his office for personal gain.”
> 	• Senior White House officials tried to “lock down” records of the call, especially a word-for-word transcript.
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> Speaker Nancy Pelosi, speaking to reporters today, said the administration’s reported efforts to conceal the call amounted to a “cover-up.”
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> So we need an X-gate for the purported cover-up.  Ukrainegate is pretty awful, and Bidengate not much better (except phonologically).  Any suggestions on solving for X?
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> (I recall way back when, there were reference to GHW Bush's “Chicken Kiev” speech...aha—here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Kiev_speech <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Kiev_speech>. But that’s not really relevant here, except it is an exceptionally bon mot.)
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> LH
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