As any of you who follow him know by now, Jeff Tiedrich has some sample questions for tonight’s ‘debate’. I’ve cleaned them up for Mama Approved Sharing. Feel free to chime in with your own!

Mr. Trump, can you name all Ten Commandments?

ok then, can you name five of them?

wait, did you just say that the Second Amendment is one of the Ten Commandments?

do you know where Melania is right now?

here are six photos of teenage boys. which one is Barron?

a shark leaves Cleveland traveling east at 20 miles an hour. a boat leaves New York traveling west at 40 miles an hour. how long before the battery in the boat causes it to sink?

here are two photos. which one is Nancy Pelosi and which is Nikki Haley?

how does a bill become a law?

how much does a bitcoin weigh?

is Hannibal Lecter a real person? is he alive?

is Frederick Douglass a real person? is he alive?

John McCain. was he a sucker or a loser?

the soldier who took your place in Vietnam. was he a sucker or a loser?

here are two photos. which one is Ivana Trump and which one is E. Jean Carroll?

let’s say you lived too close to a windmill and you developed noise cancer. who would you want to treat you, Dr. Ronny Johnson Jackson, or the guy who diagnosed your imaginary bone spurs?

here are some drawings of animals. which one is the camel?

who did you pay to take your cognition test for you?

which is better at curing covid, Clorox or Lysol?

I get some of my news from “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central. If you watch it, wait until the very end and you get a Moment of Zen where you are treated to a media faux pas video clip.

Here is the Zero (as we say in America) who labeled the media “vultures” for pointing out the fact that he wears a Combat Infantry Badge that he neither earned nor deserved.

Here above, he is seen wearing it. He won’t anymore.

Now about that 2nd Bronze Star…

Want to have some fun before you find out that the only presidential candidate in U.S. history with felony convictions will definitely NOT be showing up to debate President Biden on Thursday?

Look no further than Betonline.

They have bets on everything you ever wondered about happening in a 2024 debate between President Biden and TFG.

Things that will never happen because the debate will never happen (but if there is a God above, let it be so, please, please, please).

An explanation of the betting numbers may be necessary. It was for me.

A minus sign in the odds means that the event is more likely to happen. That is, if an event is rated as -150, that means that in order to win $100 you must bet $150 (like if you bet that Biden will take a drink of water first).

On the other hand, a plus sign in the odds means that it is less likely to happen. Like if you bet $100 that Trump will mention his daughter, Tiffany’s name, you will win $12,500.

Sounds fun, huh?

The fun part is that it’s no joke. Some people will bet on anything. I particularly like the over/under on how many times TFG will lie (or the way they put it “non-facts”).

15.5. That’s 15.5 lies.

I’d take the over on that.

Do you remember Dr. Ronny “The Candyman” Jackson? The Everyone’s Ambien guy?

The guy who was once TFG’s official White House doctor?

He was the guy who famously gave The Convicted Felon a cognitive test (person, woman, man, camera, TV) and once claimed that TFG could live 200 years.

He’s also the guy who TFG referred to as “Doc Ronny…Doc Ronny Johnson…” in his speech at the “People’s Convention” a “Turning Point” event in Detroit last week.

He’s also a congressman now, Republican wouldn’t you know, representing Texas CD-13.

That guy.

Well, yesterday, Doc Ronny Whatshisname got a break from the House Ethics Committee when they 18a’d him.

18a is a House Ethics Committee rule that allows the committee to “gather additional information concerning such an alleged violation…unless and until an investigative subcommittee has been established.”

The information sought (and also provided) showed how Dr. Jackson used campaign funds to pay his membership dues to The Amarillo Club: over $6,800 in donors’ money so he may belong to a “fine dining club and gym in downtown Amarillo”.

But you know how it goes, there such was a crying need for more information on the matter, that rather than assign a subcommittee to investigate it, they decided to file it for future reference and study.

Here.

We have mentioned the tightrope act that Texas Senator Ted Cruz performs in his deal with iHeartMedia as he plays push the envelope with The Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971.

What we’ve barely touched on is Ted Cruz’s partner in crime: the very same iHeartMedia. You see, it is not only a crime for Cruz to extract hundreds of thousands of dollars from a donor by directing them to pay the lucre he earns from his podcast, Verdict With Ted Cruz, to a PAC fund whose sole purpose is to re-elect him, it is also a violation of 52 USC § 30129(a) and 11 CFR § 115.2(a)(1) to make these contributions while a federal government contractor.

Which is what iHeartMedia is, and has been.

iHeartMedia maintains government contracts with the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Here is the description of one such contract for which iHeartMedia was paid $30,000.

It’s just that clear.

Cruz can’t do what he’s doing, and iHeartMedia can’t do what they’re doing.

You’d think that the Federal Election Commission would be all over this, but all of the players in DC know how toothless the FEC has become. Its governing board of 6 has barely had a quorum these past few years, and when it does, the votes are at times deadlocked along party lines.

Like everything else in government today, our institutions are constructed to ride herd over those who complain about not being told not to mow the carpet.