e. j. bancesco

I tell stories with pencil, quill, brush and kettle

[e. j. bancesco @ejbancesco]

Epigraph from Adrift, a novel published by #ATTMPress #amwriting #literary #novels @ejbancesco

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Invitație la vernisajul expoziției The Itinerant Pen - patru decenii de design pe trei continente - OAR București https://t.co/ZLxcJWoj29

[e. j. bancesco @ejbancesco]

@bruce_steiner 👍

[e. j. bancesco @ejbancesco]

@bluhue123 YES

[e. j. bancesco @ejbancesco]

@realpublicius Hear, hear!

[e. j. bancesco @ejbancesco]

@kangaroos991 Yes. You should and you will go to prison

[e. j. bancesco @ejbancesco]

Country road near Horodniceni, Suceava - oil on wood panel, July, 2023

[e. j. bancesco @ejbancesco]

Country road in Bukovina. Oil on canvas - October, 2023

[e. j. bancesco @ejbancesco]

Cove in the Pagasitikos gulf, Kalamos, Pelion. Oil on wood panel, September 2023

[Tired and Fed up Bob! @schoolin_cons]

@BeaconOfNorth @joncoopertweets

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Donald Trump idiotically digs his legal hole even deeper by unleashing a threat to flee to Russia and live with Vladimir Putin after the judge in the Fulton County set his bond at $200,000 and barred him from intimidating witnesses.

While he claimed separately that he will surrender to local Georgia authorities on Thursday, a Truth Social post has set off alarm bells even if it's ostensibly a "joke."

In the truly bizarre post, Trump whined that the "failed District Attorney of Fulton County (Atlanta), Fani Willis" has "insisted" on his current bond.

"I assume, therefore, that she thought I was a ‘flight’ risk - I’d fly far away, maybe to Russia, Russia, Russia, share a gold domed suite with Vladimir, never to be seen or heard from again," Trump taunted.

The idea of Donald Trump fleeing the country like a cartel boss is NOT farfetched in any sense. This is a man who has spent his entire life breaking the law and now faces the possibility of finally paying the price for his crimes. Of course he has at the very least considered fleeing — and will find the idea even more appealing if he's convicted.

But he wasn't done there.

"Would I be able to take my very ‘understated’ airplane with the gold TRUMP affixed for all to see. Probably not, I’d be much better off flying commercial - I’m sure nobody would recognize me!" Trump added, attempting to make a mockery of this entire process.

Trump can "joke" all he wants. In the end, Fani Willis is going to get the last laugh.

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[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Donald Trump is rocked by bombshell news as a former Homeland Security official comes forward to reveal an overlooked part of Special Counsel Jack Smith's indictment so chilling that he says his "blood ran cold."

According to former Army officer Kevin Carroll — the man who served as senior counsel to Trump's Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly — we came dangerously close to Donald Trump using the U.S. military to murder American civilians.

He stated that Trump's advisers "would have put the U.S. military in the position of defying orders or turning their weapons on civilians.”

Carroll said that "as a veteran" he felt his blood run cold when reading two specific passage in Jack Smith's indictment.

In them, Smith details how Trump and his election-denying attorneys meticulously constructed an "autocratic plan to remain in power" aimed at forcing the U.S. military to "choose between subservience to civilian control or refusing to undertake an anti-democratic domestic political role."

Carroll pointed to Trump's Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark remark that they had options to put down any riots that might spring up if Trump illegally remained in power by saying: "That’s why there’s an Insurrection Act."

Just as evil, Trump's outside counsel John Eastman addressed the possible riots by coldly observing that certain points in American history have necessitated violence.

We came VERY close to Trump abusing his powers as commander-in-chief to murder innocent people to keep himself in in the White House. Carroll explained further—

"The armed services were to be told to use force against Americans to keep Trump in office, despite the objective fact, as established in more than 60 judicial proceedings, that Biden won the 2020 election," explained Carroll explains. He added that it could have easily resulted in a "tragic loss of life."

"Generals would be forced to choose whether to abandon an unbroken tradition of American military obedience to civilian control, or turn their guns on civilians to facilitate a losing candidate remaining in the White House beyond Inauguration Day," Carroll added.

Most damningly for Trump, Carroll concluded that the "potential harm" of the then-president's plans to use the military should "should be taken into account in the former president’s sentencing" in his 2020 election criminal case.

Carroll is absolutely right. The fact that we are even debating whether or not Donald Trump — man who tried to destroy our democracy and install himself as king — should go to prison is an indictment of us all.

Trump deserves prison above all else.

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[Just Jack @7Veritas4]

If you think he had a bad day today, wait till someone explains the Presidential Records Act to him.

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

This is not new but bears repeating. There are 10 House Republicans who held a meeting to get Pence to steal the election and they are now in Jack Smiths crosshairs; and, most of the 10 begged for pardons.

https://t.co/IQxfdTE9ec

[e. j. bancesco @ejbancesco]

@ericareport And all this he accomplished surrounded be malfeasance, ill will, and gales of sheer hatred blowing in from the corrupted and desperately power-hungry GOP