"The game is the game."
If you're a fan of the HBO classic TV show 'The Wire,' you're quite familiar with this phrase and all that means, if you're not familiar with the show don't worry this will still make sense. This phrase was uttered multiple times throughout the course of the show, in many different tones, by many different people. The phrase was used in light-hearted humorous ways, as a teaching tool and as threats or warnings.
"The game" is the drug game, the cat-and-mouse game the drug game creates with the cops, the juking of stats and chain of command...
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