it's not that he has uninteresting political thoughts, it's that "politics" has stretched into basic moral arguments, where something like the rights afforded to historically marginalized people is now considered a "political issue" where Republicans' outright bigotry (the kind of boring shit USA espouses regularly) is legitimized

so no, Dan wouldn't be a good political radio host. Maybe if it was regarding local politics.

no

Edited: well actually yes, that is WHY he was going to call the employer. Which is, of course, ridiculously funny. But I don't think that's what he was going to tell the employer, he was going to mess with Greg by exposing Greg's social media personality

Not in this argument over fish, no. But being a MAGA dipshit on Twitter (per CH's investigation) he's probably crossed a 2020 line

There have been some genuinely good and insightful comments in this thread as well as the requisite amount of meatballs, but it has all been interesting to consume. I made my feelings known earlier and only took minimal shrapnel so thanks for that. Carry on.

You know, when you look at his regular feed, it's just retweets of accounts called like "Patriot Report" and "The Freedom Conservative," but if you go over to the replies tab, ol' Greggers has been up Dan's ass for weeks now.

- He went after Dan for retweeting that the USDA is cutting school lunch budgets, retorting with "well, you retweeted Adam Kinzinger" (?) and then called him a libtard

- He responded to Dan posting the link to the OneStep poker event with "you're another dumb liberal, stick to sports"

- Went after Dan for working for Audacy, owned by (((Soros))), and accused Dan of getting a Rolex in high school (?)

Maybe he'd finally had enough of the guy.

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Imagine Dan reading "thought" pieces on why socialism is what is needed, why price gouging is the true cause of egg-flation, etc. He's done this on his sports radio show. I think he would have plenty of topics to be angry about, just give him the space to do it vs. dropping these in on a sports show.

As I said, esp with Chicago sports....this is more fun than actual Chicago sports. The Bulls? The Blackhawks? Another shitty Bears season, winning the offseason.
We should all thank Dan for the entertainment.

No, he won't be fired, as I said earlier, by Thursday of next week no one will be talking about this. Also, I agree with a lot of Bricks, but disagree on bad for people enjoying this or his mental health. The guy is an asshole, Always has been, he is not some nice, salt of the earth guy. He is a complete garbage human being. That said, he was extremely talented and witty back in the day and had amazing bits.

I get people saying if he is fired left with Milktoast radio.....it has been that way in Chicago for years.

Only exception was Parkins, but he went national.

the drama of a fisherman....thank you dan and twitter.

Pretty hard to imagine; I think even Elizabeth Warren was too radical for him.

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That’s pretty much the whole politics section.

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I see it differently. Dan wasn't going to do anything other than threaten the guy with doxxing, because even he knows that posting the guy's address and what he could find out about him from Facebook would get him in big trouble, so he had to go with plausibly deniable threats. Except, the guy wasn't intimidated with the initial threat, and was unmoved by the threats about personal information—whether by naivete about what people do with such information or because he knows Dan's ilk are cowards, it doesn't really matter—and Dan was either too consumed by his anxious rage or too drunk from Lot 95 wine to realize escalating to "want your kids involved?" (whatever that actually meant) was likewise crossing a line.

It's likely very similar to what caused the dust-up with the Barstool guy filling in during transition: Dan was in the mood to settle someone's hash (Barstool then, MAGA Christian now [don't forget Dan HATES Christians]), and mustered up enough clenched-fist, visibly-shaking nerd rage to make a stand for all that is right and...did something completely embarrassing and possibly, in this case, career-ending. He's an awkward dork who has either bought into the rhetoric that the world is coming apart and he, personally, Must Do Something About All This, or has been so consumed by fear that everyone not in complete lockstep with him politically is waiting for a chance to gas people. Is there any doubt that things like being a more doting husband to his wife or a nurturing father to his children are afterthoughts in his therapy sessions, where he pays someone handsomely to plead with him to turn off MSNBC?

I’m guessing that was a bat signal to the real hardass dudes and Bernstein nut huggers like Schmutzie to Mobilize And Do Something like the actual doxxing , calling this guys work , etc . Didnt go quite as planned .

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What happened to old Quad Cities Pat? Did he finally give up the computer?

He appears to have a bluesky account, but you have to sign in to be able to see it.

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The minions doing fine work. Portnoy wins again.

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He’s willing to break bad on a co-religionist.

Look what he did to that pregnant fish.

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Dan was able to dissociate during the onslaught from the Stoolies, so I don't buy that this one rando Boomer was able to crack the code and make Dan do something he's never done before and go ballistic on a troll.

Regardless, the guy's previous trolls were pretty tame by internet standards, hell they were lame by Bernstein's standard trolling shtick where he calls people dumb, inbred hicks. So the response was neither deserved nor warranted.

Dan was smart enough to know they were coming for him. But he was dumb enough to fall into the traps Barstool laid.

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The only traps the Stoolies like are hairless twinks in lingerie.

I mostly agree, except to add that Dan's threat didn't work because the shitheads won. This tactic is #resistance from the last war.

Also, point of order here on the fish…

The argument wasn’t about the merits of killing a pregnant pike. Dan insisted it was a walleye and got a “well ackshully” from the MAGA guy. That set Bernstein off, I think, because Bernstein has always been very emotional when proven factually wrong.

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Dan LOVES Smart People who are only there to do two things: chew bubble gum, and shift some goddamn paradigms. I doubt being a fellow member of the tribe is much more than a bonus to him. He loved the heterosexual, non-Jewish Billy Beane and Paul DePodesta (I don't know if Paul DePodesta is heterosexual).

I feel like he's in a place where "hey, that thing you care about, you actually fucked up at" is cutting deeper than usual.

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Amazing thought, can you discuss this with Brick?

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1. Take a closer look at the blood on the gills.

2. Who cares? It's not about the fish it's about the psychotic response to criticism. He went all John Cena because some .oron on the interwebs taunted him. This, and the barstool guy thing, is a massive ego problem.

3. It's all hilarious.

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Blood on the Gills is my favorite Trey Anastasio comeback album.

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Technically Mr. Messenger was well ackshually-ing "Betsy4Democracy" who brought up walleye in response to someone asking Dan directly whether he was going to eat the possibly-Jewish, possibly-dead pike in Dan's picture.



Dan seemed to be really upset that he was accused of killing a pregnant pike.

A lot of resources were activated. Some assumed Bernstein had outlasted Portnoy’s minions. They play the long game. They won.

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And now that I read that back, "released successfully" seems like a lawyered response Dan is capable of. And tacking on "...took off like a torpedo" is protesting a bit much.

Did the barstool guy criticism him or just say his last name? I think it's highly probable Dan didn't like him because that guy worked for barstool, a site that he hates because of their positions, so he went in looking for a fight and settled on the dumbest thing he could use (.....he then probably "trumped" it with a fish argument).

I think he's just triggered very easily by the slightest thins that offend/outrage him - Trump, anyone who supports him, etc. to the point that he's looking for reasons.

Even though his co-hosts all share his general thoughts, I can't imagine having to work with someone who is so miserable day after day.