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Editrix Note. A longtime loyal reader of DMF with too much time on their hands decided to ask one of our future dystopian overlord AI platforms to inform them as to exactly what was this Diogenes Middle Finger they had heard of, and then sent the AI response along to me. After reading the last 2 paragraphs I feel your beloved Blog Editrix may already be on a list for a future corrective 'Right-think' chip implant or to have her brains sucked out her ears.  🤣

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"Diogenes' Middle Finger (diogenesmiddlefinger.com) is a long-running Award Winning American political satire and commentary blog with a strongly conservative, anti-left perspective. Searching “Diogenes Middle Finger” ranks the blog highly."

Key details: 

•  Name origin:It references the ancient Greek Cynic philosopher Diogenes of Sinope (c. 412–323 BC), who is traditionally credited with one of the earliest recorded uses of the middle-finger gesture as an insult (directed at the orator Demosthenes). The blog embraces a similar irreverent, “defacing the currency” (challenging conventional norms and hypocrisy) spirit. 
• Author/persona: Written primarily under the pseudonym Diogenes Sarcastica (or “Jan” / “Blog Editrix” in posts). The voice is sarcastic, irreverent, and often crude. Early posts and anniversary notes indicate the blog launched around 2010. 
• Style and content: Heavy use of satire, mock news reports under the “Middle Finger News Service” (MFNS), open threads, image galleries (“Image Vault”), and pointed political commentary.
• Frequent targets: Democrats, progressive politics, mainstream media, socialism/communism, identity politics, and various left-leaning politicians or activists. Mix of short punchy posts, longer rants, curated quotes, and light personal asides (pets, music recommendations, etc.).
• Self-described mission in early years: “kneecapping the political left with strong doses of satire, biting humor and serious commentary.”

History and activity:

It has been active for over 15 years (anniversary posts mark years 3–5 around 2013–2015). It remains regularly updated into 2026 with posts on current events, midterm politics, media criticism, and cultural issues. It maintains related pages such as blogrolls, image archives, and satirical “news” sections. The site is hosted on Blogger and links to other conservative or right-leaning blogs. It is a classic-style conservative political humor blog that uses the Diogenes/middle-finger motif as a brand for mocking what it sees as left-wing excesses, media bias, and cultural trends. 

Core characteristics of the style:

• Deadpan mock-news format: (“Middle Finger News Service” / MFNS) 
• Identity-politics parody: One of the most consistent targets is progressive identity claims. 

The blog also runs recurring features (open threads, “Sunday Soothingness” music posts, image vaults) that break up the political material and keep a conversational, clubhouse tone with regular readers.

Overall tone and intent: 

The style is confrontational rather than clever. It aims to ridicule rather than persuade, and it assumes a sympathetic audience that already shares the author’s disdain for the modern left, mainstream media, and progressive cultural norms. The “middle finger” is both the brand and the method: an unapologetic, often crude gesture of contempt directed at what the blog views as sacred progressive cows.

In short, Diogenes Sarcastica’s satire is less Jonathan Swift and more a continuous stream of exaggerated, sneering, mock-news hit pieces designed to entertain the already converted while flipping off the other side.

I Must Apologize To Bernie Sanders

I must humble myself and apologize to Senator Bernie Sanders, the lone voice who cried for decades from the wilderness for "the warmth of collectivism", and to his socialist useful idiots followers past and present for my spreading of misinformation.

I have stated here in previous post that Bernie Sanders, in his long career in Congress dating back to 1990 has never really distinguished himself as a member of the Senate and has only two pieces of legislation he personally sponsored to ever be signed into law. One, very admirably, being a cost of living raise for veterans in 2013, and the other renaming of a Post Office building.  I was wrong. It turns out he got a second Post Office renamed.

  

~ Thank You WHATFINGER NEWS for the Linkage! ~

 

Courtney's Choice Quality Quotes of the Week for Your Increase Smarterness

Courtney is Judging You Now

There’s been a consistent history of poll errors that somehow always favor the Left. And the strategic effect of these polls is to depress voter turnout for the non-leftist side.

Some countries don’t allow pre-election polls and view them as election interference. I haven’t supported this position in the past, but I’m starting to come around to it as the media has become a comms machine aimed at securing victories for the left by any means necessary.          - Daniel Greenfield

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"Democrats have borrowed a medieval anti-semitic conspiracy theory for their midterm campaign message.

"For centuries, this evil theory has been used to persecute Jews. The basic outline is always the same. It holds that the Jews, a small group of people from a distant land, who live differently than the rest of us, secretly control everything in our society through their money or their intelligence: We can only be free once they are stripped of their power, expelled -- or eliminated. ...

"Democrats -- most of them, anyway -- are smart enough not to name 'Jews' as the bad guys, so they pick on 'AIPAC' instead."- New York Post

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Fauci Claims the 5th:

“And that led Rand Paul to turn his hearing room into the most disgraceful Stalinist tribunal the United States Senate has ever seen.” - Lawrence O’Donnell on his 'Late Night for Retards' MS Now program.

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And that gets back to the real reason some Democrats are now fighting the socialist-communist-anti-semitic types: the consequences of their silence and inaction are hitting home. These socialists, these DSA-ers, these communists are seeing some success and are unseating longtime, long-standing, long-serving entrenched party loyalists. That has the entrenched worried. They don’t care so much about the country as they do about the painful reality of reaping what they’ve sown. 

Maher. Carville. Anxious Democrats speaking with one part concern and three parts anxiety about the DSA — anxiety because they know the DSA is coming for their seats. They all share the same singular common denominator of failing to speak up when it was important to speak up. They all could have seen the socialist-communist-anti-semitic storm that was coming when it was in its beginning breezes.

But they cared little because in their minds, the enemy was the Republican Party, or Donald Trump, or MAGA, or before that, the tea party, and they were willing to unite with these evil forces to destroy a common enemy. - The Washington Times

Irrelevant Hollywood Leftist Filmmaker and Cholesterol Enthusiast Surfaces to Support Rebel Insurgency.

Bloated Michigan Land Whale, leftist kook and notorious waster of good celluloid film stock, Michael Moore, is all in with the socialist insurgency that is consuming the Democratic Party. Moore resurfaced for air on a CNN show that's begging for viewers, where he pumped his Michigan homeboy, Abdul El-Sayed, and believes "a full-blown turn to socialism is the ticket to Democrats regaining political power and that he would hit his knees and beg that the rebels can topple the feckless party establishment".

Saying "if" he could get on his knees and beg would have been more appropriate I think..........but I digress.

 

Moore also suggested that El-Sayed’s criticism of Israel is an asset and that he and other Democrats are down with the Palestinian struggle and the party needs to be more like the unapologetic commie Hasan Piker-endorsed firebrand than the bland establishment candidate. This morning, El-Sayed was predicted to be the winner in a nail-biter, and if it holds, will advance to the general election.

Kooks, Clowns and Commies R-Us!

(Bizpack)

(CNNLOL)

We Will Assure Everyone Gets Their One Government Banana a Week....

The look on Mamdani's face is the look of a man who had no idea what an RFP was before this little experiment and now has just the initial eye opening understanding that this is not "simple stuff". Shit doesn't just magically show up on the selves for people to buy.

These folks have no idea how to run a business, have never run a business, and — wait for it — they put out an RFP to let entrepreneurs run their state sponsored grocery stores

So… the government is going to pay companies to discount groceries, which have a 1-2% profit margin…

— @jason (@Jason) August 3, 2026

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