Sunday Soothingness

Just for you, because your Blog Editrix loves each and every one of you, a bit of Sunday Soothingness. Another choice morsel drawn from your Beloved Editrix's personal digs, here is a nice soothing track by one of my favorite solo artist, the amazing guitarist Leo Kottke titled "A Child Should Be A Fish" from his 1974 album "Ice water". 

Take a Deep Breath and Enjoy your Sunday. 

We Don't Hate These People Enough.

He admits that he was censored by the government and he willfully followed along with the censorship because he’s a partisan Democrat hack.

🚨 Fmr. ABC News’ Terry Moran Says Fauci Shut Down Their COVID Lab Leak Story

“The day that it's supposed to air, it gets reviewed and it comes back to me — it is incomprehensible … I was told ‘Fauci’ … There was an organized campaign … to say there's no way there's a lab… pic.twitter.com/FM2Q6oe3m8

— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) August 14, 2026

This just demonstrates the lack of journalistic integrity in spades. They have no problem reporting entirely false stories from anonymous sources and based on hearsay but when they have some facts and the guilty party says it’s not true they shut it down. He is an absolute embarrassment to the profession. Another brave journalist determined to get to the truth no matter what….when it’s politically and professionally safe to do so. 

If the government can shut down your scoop, you're not in news; you're in advertising.

~ Thank You WHATFINGER NEWS for the Linkage! ~

So, the White House is in Need of a New Press Secretary. If I May Be So Bold As To Make a Suggestion.........

Let's Check In on Our Old Friends Squinty & Meat Puppet Shall We??

At the end of a nearly 30-minute-long MS NOW segment on the commie Rasputin Hasan Piker and the DSA, Squinty Joe Scarborough, with the always lovely Meat Puppet Mika nearby with a syringe of Xanax at the ready, almost popped a tube ranting at Dems over the Kamala Harris “They/Them” ad and said Democrats are “once again fumbling the football on the two-yard line”. Here's an Excerpt:

To close the nearly 30-minute-long segment on Hasan Piker and the DSA, Joe Scarborough yelled at Dems over the Kamala Harris “They/Them” ad and said Democrats are “once again fumbling the football on the two-yard line” by “being so woke.” pic.twitter.com/iWbGibxuEt

— Nick (@nspin310) August 10, 2026

This progressive movement is attaching itself to a litany of crazies. This commie Hasan Piker is vile and disgusting but this new Democrat Socialist of America wing wants him with them. The DSA for over 40 years has DENOUNCED DEMOCRATS. Yet, they get some advancements and the position now is to EMBRACE THEM WITHOUT QUESTION?

And Now a Word From Sigmund.....

Okay Class Let's Review....

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

A Good Monday Morning

Update: Anyone Seen Tingles Matthews?? 🧐

From MIDDLE FINGER NEWS SERVICE  December 2013

Chris Matthews to Donate Leg to Obama

Presidential Library

MFNS -Washington - MSNBC political commentator Chris Matthews today announced he would proudly donate his famous "Tingling Leg" to the future Barack Obama Presidential Failure Library said to be now in the planning stage of construction. 
 
"Every since I made that statement on-air about the tingle up my leg the night of the election, the conservative bloggers have been shellacking me with it night and day!. So I plan to amputate it and donate it to the Obama Library when it opens and make all those bastards look like fools" Matthews told Middle Finger News. 

Ask if he was absolutely serious about the statement he told us,  "Look, we were indeed drinking heavily during commercial breaks in the election coverage, but on air I was sitting next to Rachel Maddow for Gods sake! And while she was wild eyed and had on a nice pair of fishnets and playing footsie under the table with Andrea Mitchell.... I know the tingle wasn't because of them! That was 100% adrenaline and admiration for Barack Obama because of the outcome of election night." 

There has at this time been no official statement from the White House, but Press Secretary Jay Carney suggested the addition of the famous amputated leg, preserved in a glass case in the entrance to the future library would be an towering symbol of the love and support by members of the media for the 44th President in his heroic struggle to save America.

" Barack will get the leg for his library.....I'll show those bastards!" said Matthews.

Editix Note: As of this writing Aug 2, 2026, Tingles Matthews has not been seen in public or heard from since the Obama Mausoleum open earlier this year. 

Matthews.......Matthews.......Matthews............

Middle Finger Symphony Theater

 ~ No Tuxedos Required ~

Gentlemen, You've Been Doing It Wrong. 🤣

So much for all the expensive flowers, romantic candlelit dinners, and not to mention the sly safaris in search of erogenous zones. Your distant forefathers had the 411. It was all so much easier than you thought. 

~ Thank You MJA@IOTWReport for the Linkage  ~

The Public Saw the Articles. Not Influence Operation Behind Them.

REVEALED: Here Are the Mainstream Journalists on China’s Payroll 🚨

I exclusively uncovered the identities of prominent U.S. journalists flown to China by a CCP-linked influence operation seeking “favorable coverage” and “positive messages” about Beijing. 🧵

— Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) July 27, 2026

The names come from Natalie Winters’ investigation matching public DOJ FARA filings (on CUSEF and its PR firm) with archived CUSEF newsletters & reports that documented the trips.

The names include:

- Ezra Klein, New York Times columnist - Matthew Yglesias, Vox co-founder - Ronald Brownstein, CNN senior political analyst - Bradford Plumer, New York Times reporter - Marjorie Miller, former Associated Press vice president

- Steve Clemons, former The Hill editor-at-large - David Rohde, MS NOW senior national security reporter - Jonathan Alter, NBC News and MSNBC political analyst - David Sweeney, former NPR managing editor - Daniel Gross, former Yahoo Finance columnist

- Marilyn Geewax, former NPR senior editor - Kathleen Deveny, former Newsweek editor - Tom Omestad, former U.S. News & World Report correspondent - Steve Chapman, former Chicago Tribune columnist - Bruce Stokes, former National Journal correspondent

- Craig Gilbert, former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Washington bureau chief - Tony Semerad, Salt Lake Tribune reporter - Shikha Dalmia, former The Week columnist - Jonathan Broder, former Newsweek senior writer

- Cristi Kempf, former Chicago Tribune associate managing editor - Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times deputy editorial page editor - Julian Pecquet, former Foreign Affairs reporter

Trip organizer CUSEF was founded by Tung Chee-hwa, a former senior official in the CCP’s United Front system, the influence apparatus Beijing uses to cultivate foreign elites and shape institutions outside China. The access went far beyond conference rooms.

Then came the coverage.......

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Like Don Quixote on a Three Legged Donkey

It seems so long ago Joe Biden raised his hand and bold face lied to God and the entire nation that he would faithfully carry out the duty of defending the Constitution and Country from enemies both foreign and domestic. He did neither.  His pack of rabid neo-marxist, racial identity adherence yelling "our democracy is in danger" placed in positions of power did not go unnoticed by anyone paying a least bit of attention.  

For the last decade or so a cottage industry had been building around the demand for analysis demonstrating how the Republican Party had become too extreme. By the time Vox got around to the subject, the American electorate had delivered control of every seat of power in Washington to the GOP. For all the lectures about how Republican voters had supposedly sequestered themselves in self-radicalizing cloisters, the self-righteous left were just as disinclined to look at themselves in the mirror, intentional or not. 

Democrat voters, fed a constant diet of how bad America is, are increasingly adopting a brand of extremism all their own. Some dem politicians seeking their party's nomination seem perfectly willing to tailor their policy preferences to their party’s ascendant minority of marxist extremists.

Bernie & AOC have devoted precious time on the campaign trail to stripping “socialism” of its stigma. Senator Lizzy  advocates changes to the criminal code and make illegal entry into the country no more serious than spitting on the sidewalk. The dems socialist 2026 bench appears so committed to radical one-upmanship that they embracing policies that have the support of no constituency whatsoever, like making D.C. the nation’s 51st state, an idea that most everyone opposes regardless of ideology, party affiliation, or region.

Convinced just months ago they finally had the country just outside their grasp because of the incompetence of the present administration, even with the media carrying their feces, dems are now in pillow biting mode over the DNC being dead broke and marxist rabble they let fester in their midst, and privately said to be entertaining the possibility they may not make the large anticipated gains in coming mid-terms'.

The dems most visible problem right now is NYC Comrade Zohran Mamdani. The premise of Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote maps cleanly onto politics and Mamdani's marxist makeover of NYC.

A person (or movement) becomes immersed in an idealized narrative, in Mamdani's case utopian blueprints with underlying islamo-marxism. Don Quixote's reality was windmills become giants, inns become castles, flocks of sheep become armies. In Comrade Mamdani and the New Left politics, the equivalents are institutions, opposing voters, economic data, or bureaucratic processes that get recoded as existential threats or pure evil.

Like Quixote, Mamdani charges forward with sincere conviction, often dragging along more pragmatic useful idiots (Sancho figures) who half-believe, half-enable, and sometimes exploit the quest. The results are soon to be a mix of farce, collateral damage, occasional unintended good, and eventual collision with unyielding facts.

Opponents are no longer fellow citizens with different preferences but caricatures (giants, enchanters, traitors). Symbolic victories or rhetorical purity are pursued even when they demonstrably worsen the concrete problems the movement claims to care about. Followers and institutions adapt to the fantasy rather than correct it, because the story confers status, solidarity, or power. Some quixotic campaigns expose real injustices that complacent realists prefer to ignore or just don't give a shit. Others simply multiply chaos while congratulating themselves on their purity.

Having grown up in Europe I have seen all this before. Mamdani is a fool on a fool's errand.

Whenever political discourse treats a preferred story as more authoritative than observed outcomes, the windmills are probably nearby.

And all y'all Rayssist!  

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A Good Monday Morning

Sunday Soothingness

Just for you, because your Blog Editrix loves each and every one of you, a bit of Soothingness for your auditory nerves, a choice morsel drawn from your Beloved Editrix's personal digs.  A beautiful track from the 1967 landmark album "Surrealistic Pillow" that unleashed the Jefferson Airplane on the world, I give for your Sunday Soothingness "Embryonic Journey". Written and performed by Jorma Kaukonen.......

Take a Deep Breath and Enjoy your Sunday. 

Yes My Friends, It's The Return of Your Official Almost Semi-World Famous Irredeemable Big Ass Open Thread

Hear Ye, Hear Ye! 

Friends, Patriots, Countrymen. It is proclaimed this day, the Twenty-Fourth Day of July in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty Six by Your Beloved Blog Editrix Who Loves Each and Everyone of You, this hour of this day the opening of Your Official Week Ending Almost Semi-World Famous Irredeemable Big Ass Open Thread! All in Favor say "I".

It's been a year since the last Big Ass Open Thread and lots has happened since. So Your Beloved Blog Editrix, Who Loves Each and Everyone of You, knows y'all done got more smarter than last time we got together and knows you're anxious to share it with us all, and the the opportunity to leave your mark on history and possibly, but not likely, be admired by future generations for your wisdom.  Not to mention you're probably bursting with a backlog of accolades and tribute for your Beloved Editrix after her absence.

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We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us

Imagine being wealthy in your mid-30's, rallying up a contingent of blue-haired, skinny, mentally handicapped commies? All the while enjoying all the creature comforts provided in a western nation?

DSA podcaster Hasan Piker delivers Hitler-style rant in a Mao Zedong suit

Hasan Piker delivers Hitler-style rant in a Mao Zedong suit pic.twitter.com/0RYL3Lx5Vt

— DSA Watch (@DSA_Watch) July 19, 2026

Nazis and Guys in Dresses. WTF is going on in Maine?

He might not be Maine’s next Senator, but maybe he’ll be Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey sequel.🤣🤣 https://t.co/YmgwWUUGX2

— Diogenes Sarcastica (@KonanBarBarron) July 17, 2026

Joe Biden Announces New Upcoming Tome of 'The Continuing Adventures of Joe Biden' Memoirs

This will be Biden's third book of memoirs. His first attempt was a still unpublished book about the 2008 election and first years as VP, a copy of the manuscript which just someway kinda fell into DMF hands, called "The 2008 Campaign, the Best I can Remember ". I'm pretty sure Barky put his foot on this one. 🤣

His second book, Volume 1 - The Coal Miner's Moron. The Early Years 1942-52', was praised for its deep reflections and colorful intimate stories.  

Here is the NPR Book Review at the time...

Joe Biden to Release Volume 1 of 'JRB'- His 5 Volume Monumental Memoir: 

From his picturesque description of travel down the birth canal, to his selfless volunteering as a young boy to act as the canary in the coal mine in his hometown of Scranton PA. during the great canary shortage of '49,  Volume 1 'The Early Years 1942-52', and the volumes to follow promise never before told tales of adventure and accidental heroism, colorful characters and revealing peeks behind the scenes in the life of America's Beloved 46th President. - NPR

Volume 1 'The Early Years 1942-52'

Available now for preorder at Amazon Books, 

or for $10 out of the trunk of Hunter Biden's car. 

And the Unicorns Roamed the Fields

Great successes and catastrophes all begin the same way:

 with a big idea. 

The Great State of Louisiana, my adopted home, has a rich history of attempting a practice of utopian socialism early in the last century. One of the most notable was in 1917, when two hundred settlers from a failed "warmth of collectivism" utopian socialist community in California chartered a train to the abandoned mill town of Stables, Louisiana. They were referred to, somewhat derisively, by more strident socialists of the time as “utopian socialists” for their idealistic approach. Around this same time, model socialist communities were being established in states across the country, but most were short-lived. 

The group’s founder, Job Harriman, was a prominent lawyer who had served as Eugene Debs’s running mate on the Socialist Party ticket in the presidential election of 1900. The early years in the colony, named New Llano were tough, with no plumbing, little food, and almost no money. Kinda like living in a NYC apartment building these days.

Many colonists said oh hell no, gave up and returned to California.

At its height, the New Llano colony is estimated to have contained between eight hundred and a thousand members. Some "scholars" who regularly make bank pulling numbers out of the asses for the purpose of new books, believe as many as 10,000 people. 

As long as they bought shares and were willing to work, colonists were provided with a home, three square meals a day (or the ingredients to prepare them), free healthcare, and free education.

Despite the community’s many progressive ideals, the population never did welcome black or Asian colonists. Nope! Nope! No coloreds round here.

But when the Great Depression hit, founder Job Harriman skipped out for the comfort of California and the colony struggled to accommodate the influx of poor and destitute people who arrived looking for help. Dissension grew as long-time idealistic colonists resented as the new leaders generosity with these new arrivals to their workers paradise, many of whom could not pay for membership. 

At the height of the colony’s financial difficulties, many members staged a coup and overthrew the ones in power and took over. The unicorns escaped and the colony collapsed from debt and internal conflict. Some were more equal than others.  

Many other colonies popped up. All failed to birth a unicorn.

A Good Monday Morning

An Hilarious Look at Your Want-To-Be Future Overlord's Democratic Socialists of America Convention

A Peek Into a Past Democratic Socialists of America Convention in Atlanta. Someone Get a Net!

A look into what happened during one part of the national convention of the Democratic Socialists of America in Atlanta this weekend. pic.twitter.com/bWekVQxPWV

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) August 4, 2019

Bonus round. pic.twitter.com/qvzoqtO4kP

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 4, 2019

Resistance is Futile. Prepare to Surrender.

A Good Monday Morning!

Happy Independence Day Y'all! 😎

May The Blessings Laid Upon this Nation at it's Founding 

be Protected and Remain Forevermore!

  

This day also marks the anniversary of the fall of Vicksburg.  On July 4th, 1863, after a 47 day Union Army siege of the city, ravished by hunger and disease, the heavily fortified stronghold and the Mississippi River navigation it controlled were surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant, changing the course of the war.  

Independence day was not again observed in Vicksburg until the early 1900's.

We Gather Here Today.....🤣🤣🤣

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