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Gategate

We鈥檙e feeling pretty inundated with scandal-gates lately. According to some sources, 175 scandals use the 鈥�-gate鈥� suffix, which has us thinking: Are we living in a time of Gategate?

Of course, the 鈥済ating鈥� trend began after a series of politically motivated crimes took place at the Watergate Hotel in the 1970s, leading to President Richard Nixon鈥檚 resignation in 1974. We thought it would be fun to open up a selection of these gates, some of which are serious and sure to be familiar; others鈥�well, they鈥檙e just bizarre.

Celebgate

We start off, aptly, with a gate that involves another craze: our frenzy for all things celebrity. Celebgate opened in 2014, when hackers stole almost 500 private (sometimes nude) pictures of a number of celebrities (like Jennifer Lawrence), posting several of them online. Alarmingly, one hacker alone broke into entire iPhone backups and over 50 celebrity iCloud and Gmail accounts. Early this year, the hacker Edward Majerczyk, was sentenced to a 9-month prison term.

Pussygate

No matter your political leanings, Donald Trump鈥檚 conversation filmed in 2005 for an episode of Access Hollywood is worthy of the name scandal, in the most serious, non-Hollywood, sense of the word.

In the episode, Trump divulged his penchant for Tic-Tacs, minty devices he kept at the ready for when, apparently without delay or restraint, he started kissing beautiful women, to whom he鈥檚 attracted 鈥渓ike a magnet.鈥� When you鈥檙e a star, he said, 鈥淵ou can do anything鈥�Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.鈥�

Deflategate

In 2015, the New England Patriots (also referred to in one headline as the 鈥淒eflatriots鈥�) were accused of intentionally deflating, or under inflating, 12 footballs used during their AFC Championship Game, in which they soundly walloped the Indianapolis Colts. The Pats went on to win Super Bowl XLIX two weeks later. A months-long investigation found the Patriots guilty and star quarterback Tom Brady “aware” of the scheme. The team was fined $1 million and forced to surrender two draft picks. Despite repeated appeals, Brady was suspended four 亚洲网紅露点.

Nipplegate/Boobgate

Speaking of balls, healthy engorgement, and Super Bowls! Nipplegate tumbled out in 2004 during one of the NFL鈥檚 most evocative Super Bowl halftime shows. Surrounded by a gleaming sun disk, the nipple in question, belonging to Janet Jackson, was fleetingly liberated from its black latex bondage when Justin Timberlake rounded off his hit song 鈥淩ock Your Body.鈥� Singing the lyric, 鈥淏et I鈥檒l have you naked by the end of this song,鈥� Timberlake unlocked a panel of Janet鈥檚 dominatrix armor, thereby unleashing Janet鈥檚 right breast.

Pizzagate

Pizzagate slid out of the oven in 2016 during the presidential campaign as an instance of Fake News鈥攚hat has quickly become both a dangerous reality and a catchphrase by which to describe it. Unless you鈥檙e the Don Corleone of pizza parlors (say, Papa Don鈥檚), you don鈥檛 expect to receive death threats. After the owner of D.C. pizza joint Comet Ping Pong started receiving hundreds of threats to 鈥渒ill you personally,鈥� he knew something was horribly wrong. In a fever of delusion, dozens of fake news stories had been posted claiming Hilary Clinton used Comet Ping Pong鈥檚 back rooms to traffic children. Of course, these claims lacked any semblance of credibility.聽

Trousergate

British Prime Minster Theresa May slipped on Trousergate in 2016 when she was photographed for an interview wearing $1,250 “60%-dark-chocolate brown” leather trousers. She was quickly criticized by a former education secretary for being out of touch with 鈥減ork pie鈥� middle-class Britons (to whom May refers as 鈥淛ams鈥�). The education secretary was soon after disinvited to a private function with the Prime Minister.

Fajitagate

In 2003 the San Francisco Police Department was embroiled in Fajitagate. Here’s the story:

One evening, three police officers were out celebrating, and drinking was part of the festivities. Having partied until closing time, the officers were standing outside the entrance to the bar, when two men leaving a nearby bar approached. The drunken, off-duty cops ordered the men to relinquish their fajita-filled takeout bag. The men refused and fajita fisticuffs ensued. 聽The three officers were charged with assault, but were eventually acquitted. Nevertheless, the scandal chargrilled the SFPD for some time.

Ponytailgate

Apparently, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, John Key, has a thing for tugging ponytails. In 2015 an Auckland waitress wrote an incredibly detailed anonymous post describing Key鈥檚 proclivity for pulling her ponytail whenever he visited the cafe she worked at. He once told her, 鈥渢hat鈥檚 a very tantalizing ponytail.鈥� One op-ed surmises this immature behavior might be a sign of psychological regression, where a stressful situation triggers childlike behavior. Whatever, Prime Minister, it鈥檚 tugging weird.