Malicious Compliance and Fake News

Passive aggressive sedition against Trump already happening

I need to keep this brief but I must alert readers to a tactic I just became aware of last night — malicious compliance.

Now some of my brilliant readers are surely already well aware of this tactic and may wonder with justification where has Mark been. But I want to be sure all of you are aware because this already is an important tactic against Trump. Here is a good definition and explanation:

"Malicious compliance" is a noted pathology in the workplace and in the military (where I think the term originated). The term describes the tactic used by insubordinate or just malevolent underlings who deliberately pervert the plain meaning of an order either because they don't like the order or just want to harm the organization that pays them, but don't want to risk open insubordination. They give the order a twisted "interpretation" in order to make the organization look bad and to create a backlash against the order and the person giving the order.

Yes, passive aggressive and seditious stuff. And already two episodes of malicious compliance in the military have been exposed. One is this memo from a Lisa Yates.

That is textbook malicious compliance as Yates secretly admits.

The other is people in the Air Force maliciously interpreting Trump’s anti-DEI order as prohibiting teaching about the Tuskegee Airmen. New Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought a quick end to that silliness, but not before Democrat news media took the bull manure and spread it around like the San Antonio Express-News did.

And, yes, Ron DeSantis faced this sort of thing in Florida against his law against elementary school kids being sexually indoctrinated. Woke teachers put the most ridiculous interpretations on that law that they could and called it the “Don’t Say Gay” Law.

The Democrat “news” media (But I repeat myself.) eats these kind of crap sandwiches with glee and then vomits them all over the place happily just like the San Antonio Express-News did. (Don’t get me started on that toilet paper and on that city.)

Perhaps more pernicious is malicious compliance we might not hear about that, with little to no detection, undermines lawful authority while pretending not to — all while being paid by American taxpayers who elected Trump, of course.

I alert you all to this because we can expect a lot more malicious compliance from the federal bureaucracy, both to resist President Trump’s constitutional authority and to make him look bad. The “news” media will be willing players in that seditious game. Remember that when you see more headlines like that from the San Antonio Express Toilet Paper.