{"id":63,"date":"2025-07-28T10:41:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/retribution-and-psycho-political-projection\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T10:41:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:41:43","slug":"retribution-and-psycho-political-projection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/retribution-and-psycho-political-projection\/","title":{"rendered":"Retribution and Psycho-Political Projection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">&#39;Retribution&#39; has two main senses in English, and they are importantly different. The word can refer to revenge or to a form of justice, retributive justice. Do I have to explain that justice is not revenge? Conflating the two, journalistic shills for deep-state malefactors try to dismiss as revenge what is a quest for justice to right the wrongs perpetrated against Donald Trump by said malefactors.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Tulsi Gabbard&#39;s exposure of the Russia Collusion Hoax has leftists in our government sweating. Jonathan Turley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/jonathan-turley-key-players-russia-collusion-hoax-why-theyre-sweating-now\">names names<\/a>: John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, and Andrew McCabe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">But of course one cannot expect our political enemies to play fair in what they take to be a war.&#0160; So <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2025\/07\/27\/eric_holder_this_administration_is_using_the_power_of_the_doj_to_target_political_opponents.html\">this<\/a> comes as no surprise:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Former Attorney General Eric Holder told MSNBC on Sunday morning that the Justice Department is being politicized to attack enemies of the Trump administration and &quot;put at risk the lives and well-being&quot; of people who oppose the president.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Talk about projection!&#0160; What Holder &amp; Co. are accusing our side of doing is precisely what they have been doing all along.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">There is also the underhanded ploy of accusing us of putting lives at risk when our side rightly responds to their <em>illegal<\/em> actions.&#0160; We are supposed to accept the injury meekly, lest our legitimate objections to their outrages inspire some lunatic to go on a rampage. Yet another application of the Left&#39;s double-standard &#39;principle.&#39;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">We should never forget what sort of sorry specimen this Holder was and is. See <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2012\/07\/photo-id-eric-holders-assault-on-common-sense.html\">Photo ID: Eric Holder&#39;s Assault on Common Sense.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#39;Retribution&#39; has two main senses in English, and they are importantly different. The word can refer to revenge or to a form of justice, retributive justice. Do I have to explain that justice is not revenge? Conflating the two, journalistic shills for deep-state malefactors try to dismiss as revenge what is a quest for justice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/retribution-and-psycho-political-projection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Retribution and Psycho-Political Projection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,43,29,30,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-political-language","category-political-ponerology","category-political-psychology","category-political-tactics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}