“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”

Remember Maya Angelou’s warning to be attentive to what people say and do, because someday the people that are saying or doing things that seem outrageous and totally crazy may try to act out on what they say.

It was like a MAGA convention in a Manhattan courtroom Monday and Tuesday as MAGA from all over came to show fealty to their future king. As you can see below, Mike Johnson – currently the highest elected MAGA official in the country – shows up to bend a knee to his master.

Johnson who has let it be known that he feels he is this country’s and this time’s “Moses” as he teaches America what is moral once again nods approvingly to acknowledge Trump as his leader. The morality these two cook up will be interesting. We may need new catechisms.  

Who else came to bend their knee? 

Why lookie there! It is Iowa’s chief law enforcement officer. Sounds like she is on a mission to join the group that believes that – indeed – some people are above the law. Or at least one person in this country is. A strange policy stance for an Attorney General, but necessary if you want to climb the MAGA ladder these days. Boy, wouldn’t Bird make a great VP? Wonder if she knows that Trump’s last VP damn near got hung? 

Bird has even mocked the law by acting as one of many surrogates for Trump as these surrogates fill in for Trump in violating the gag order against him. You can almost see Trump doing ventriloquism and using Bird as a puppet as his words seemingly come from her mouth.

This show of unity for a criminal by government officials is about as grotesque of a public offering as I have ever seen. I was not around for Father Coughlin and the Nazi sympathizers of the WWII era. In my mind this utter contempt for our government and the utter contempt for the rule of law is nearly the very worst public display I have ever seen. And these are members of a once legitimate political party and the actors in this drama are elected members of the government.

Here is a comment from former Representative Liz Cheney who is about as far from liberal as anyone, yet she does believe in the rule of law as the basis of our government: 

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) roasted her former colleague, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), for showing up to former President Donald Trump’s hush-money trial in Manhattan on Tuesday.

Punchbowl News’ Jake Sherman reported earlier in the morning that Johnson would become the latest politician to show up to show his support for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, and Cheney couldn’t help but note the irony of a devout Christian like Johnson pledging allegiance to a man on trial for seedy hush-money coverup charges.

“Have to admit I’m surprised that Speaker Johnson wants to be in the ‘I cheated on my wife with a porn star’ club,” wrote Cheney. “I guess he’s not that concerned with teaching morality to our young people after all.”

Cheney wasn’t the only prominent commentator to weigh in on Johnson’s display of fealty to Trump. Yale Law School professor Scott Shapiro also cracked a joke about a pious Christian like Johnson defending Trump’s adult film star hush-money payments. “I prayed and the Lord said to me: ‘Modern-day Moses, go forth and support the man who paid the porn star not to reveal his adultery and then lied to the Government so as to pay less tax,'” he wrote.

One member of the “flaunt the rules of the gag order” group and an actual member of congress Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville admits he went to Trump trial to circumvent the gag order.

A word of caution to those who are lining up to back Trump over our constitutional government. Do not think that this will come back on you. Even if Trump wins and he ends up as president, you can expect that at some point he will turn on you. Brenna Bird – you can ask Kim Reynolds. It will happen.

And if Trump doesn’t win you have picked a real loser to be your savior. You have spent your life on a false prophet.

meme from democraticunderground.com

And for voters out there remember that everyone who is on Team MAGA is each in their own way working toward dismantling some part of our government and our norms.