This reparation
con game is a new low for Democrats that stokes hatred about something that Americans gave their blood and treasure to end over 154 years ago.
The perfect antidote to decades of government propaganda, "The Drug War: A Trillion Dollar
Con Game" strips away every disingenuous aspect of the war on drugs and reveals all of the ways in which in the war on drugs serves as a pretense for expanding government power and our military forces abroad.
And yes, Trump is playing a
con game of his own, and they'll eventually figure that out, too.
Of course, this is exactly what conservatives have been charging for years -- that ObamaCare was a liberal Big Government
con game.
Former Senator Francisco "Kit" Tatad readily agreed with the House opposition solon, describing the Charter change bid as a "long
con game" which is an underworld term used to describe a swindle carried out in a protracted and painstaking manner but with enormous rewards.
Two broad period satires extend that sense of the American
con game to entire eras.
Cuomo entreated businessman Mark Hamister not to back out of a proposed 110-room hotel project after Hamister threatened to pull out after a political flier suggested he was engaged in a "
con game."
If they act in their own interests, many won't do so--which is why the White House and its allies need a
con game and are cranking up the propaganda machine.
Perhaps in the future more hunters will become disenchanted with the NRA's
con game.
As long as they keep moving from town to town, they can use the same old
con game by finding new victims.
aThree Card Montea for the Arab refugees is a
con game in which the mark (the US tax payer) is tricked into giving aid to arefugeesa to split between the dealer and the shills, UNRWA and the Palestinian / Hamas leadership.
Heller's Catch-22, now celebrating its 50th anniversary, tipped the blasphemy scale on its side, treating the logic of war as an elaborate, absurdist
con game. Though its specific brand of carnivalesque lunacy was tied to one Brooklyn Jew's experience of World War II, the novel's countercultural cachet soared a few years after publication, when the war in Vietnam sank into quagmire.
There is a second type of "
con game," where staff may, in a positive manner, turn the game back on the inmate.
