Tailgate is the inevitable scandal in which a congressperson is discovered to have attended a furry convetion. (in my state, this scandal already happened).

Talegate will be the scandal over children's fiction authors conspiring with publishers to promote The Gay Agenda in their work. Much like Pizzagate, it won't actually be happening because the Gay Agenda isn't real thing. But that's never stopped them before.

Telltalegate is just the controversy over Telltale Games's poor treatment of its employees prior to its bankruptcy. That one's real, albeit not named *gate.

Retailgate is the conspiracy between large chain stores to band together and form a committee to develop a method to assassinate Jeff Bezos. Unfortunately for them, Bezos will buy a Tesla Cybertruck two months later, which will halt any and all assassination attempts because no assassin wants to associated with something that ugly.

Stargate is the conspiracy theory that Goa'uld are actually real and in control of the government.

Gategate is the public outcry over the press naming every single conspiracy, outrage, outcry, or anything else "somethinggate", followed by the discovery that there's actually a committee to decide on the best "gatename" for a given event.

Tailgategate: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is caught on a traffic camera driving less than one car length behind a little old lady in a Morris Mini Minor (known as tailgating in the UK, at least). The Liberal Democrats try to make this A Big Thing, and use it to indicate that Boris is A Threat To Our Safety. Then a photo emerges of former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg doing the same thing (back in 2014)... The Tailgategate scandal rocks the British Parliament as more and more MPs are accused of tailgating, and a string of high profile resignations follow.

Talegate: French President Emmanuel Macron undertakes a tour of the nation, reading stories to school children as part of his L'ecole, c'est moi education platform. When it emerges that Macron was actually in Andorra, engaged in secret negotiations with his co-prince the Bishop of Urgell, and had sent a professional impersonator out to read tales to the kiddies, the media goes wild. There's probably a riot or three before it dies down.

Watergategate: Conclusive evidence emerges that US Twitter personality and President Donald Trump had a string of "assignations" with women from the Russian embassy. Since the affairs took place in one of the apartments of the Watergate complex in DC, a totally clueless political editor unironically dubs it the "Watergate-gate" scandal. The Republican party completely ignores and/or praises it by turn, the Democratic party use it to argue that the real threat here is other Democrats, and Vladimir Putin is photographed with a secret smile on his face.

hS