The “Signalgate” Memes Have Entered the Chat
The “Signalgate” Memes Have Entered the Chat
Users are lampooning government officials’ flippant discussions of a deadly assault with no apparent knowledge of the journalist in the room.
Minutes before the United States launched a deadly missile campaign in Yemen that reportedly killed 53 people and wounded 89, including multiple children, on March 15, the Atlantic’s Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg was sitting in his car in a grocery store parking lot waiting for the attack.
The story is now well-known and well-memed: Days before the missile barrage, Goldberg was added to a Signal group chat called “Houthi PC small group” after President Donald Trump’s national security advisor, Michael Waltz, invited him to connect on the encrypted message application. The editor was included in the discussion inadvertently, a spokesperson for the National Security Council acknowledged to the Atlantic.
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Can we retire the "-gate" suffix please?
Nope... we're going to have the biggest gates, the best gates, a tremendous amount of gates, to levels nobody has seen before.
So far from off the top of my head:
- Nazisalutegate
- Tariffgate
- Ukrainebaitandswitchgate
- Ericadamsgate
- El Salvadorgate
- Guantanamobaygate
- Whoopsiefiringgate
- USAIDgate
- Mahmoudkahlilgate
- Lawfirmgate
- Electionproofofcitizenshipgate
And too many more to list...
Omg! Is this the start of -gategate??
Save time and just classify them all as Trumpgate. Basically spans the entirety of 2016 to 2028 (and if we're in the worst possible timeline long after that as well). Trump was already one of the worst presidents in recent memory, but now he's shooting for the worst of all time. He's going to go down as the president that either destroyed the US or nearly did. At minimum I'm expecting him to be remembered as the cause of the second great depression as well as a significant contributor to instability and war in Europe and Asia (I would include the middle east as well, but that's pretty much business as usual there).
Not until we have Elongate pls
Not until they find some other way to make extremely concerning, bordering-on-treason actions sound like a toddler dropping their milkshake on the ground.