Austin Baird

[Austin Baird @ASBaird]

@RodeoProfessor is any sale of public land by Interior presumably valid? is it able to sell off land under its own authority? or does it require additional authorization from Congress?

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

Shut the frick up might be the most Mormon thing ever said to me

[Austin Baird @ASBaird]

@FrankBednarz @dilanesper

[Austin Baird @ASBaird]

@nihilists4jesus I left the church for two weeks and in that time did nothing except smuggle guns, get tattoos of death metal lyrics, and vote for Democrats

[Austin Baird @ASBaird]

@jennmblk One of the worst accounts on here, and that's saying something

[Austin Baird @ASBaird]

@Corbienest @GlennAndTonic Oh damn. Nice smoke ring.

[Austin Baird @ASBaird]

Counselor in the bishopric conducting while holding a sleeping toddler. Love to see it.

[Austin Baird @ASBaird]

@BayUtahful_WY Box Elder? From where?

[Austin Baird @ASBaird]

@JeremiahDJohns Not the briar patch!!

[Austin Baird @ASBaird]

There’s not a single thing that would turn Utah blue faster than Turning Point getting involved. They should stick to their core competency of taking money from Boomers and then lighting it on fire by recruiting the most insane candidates possible in Arizona.

[Tyler Bowyer @tylerbowyer]

Utah is really really really screwed too

[Austin Baird @ASBaird]

@nihilists4jesus Powerful people in our country listen to these people

[Austin Baird @ASBaird]

@kyrapunzel

[Austin Baird @ASBaird]

I won't believe yesterday's results until they're challenged in front of @TotalSeasons

[Austin Baird @ASBaird]

@emzanotti @senatorshoshana booking a flight to Australia now

[Austin Baird @ASBaird]

@CheeseForEvery1 2030: that squirrel was always a cuck. This year we’re nominating Ebola virus cells carrying a gun.

[Austin Baird @ASBaird]

After a generational wipeout, one of Trump’s first moves is to try and appoint the head of the UFC to be his press secretary and beg him to bring along a Russian dude named islam makhachev??

I’m not even surprised. This was easily foreseeable when this asshole came down that elevator 11 years ago and the GOP deserves everything it got and everything it’s going to get. I hope he keeps this up until the candidates running for West Virginia dog catcher positions start putting their pronouns in their campaign ads.

[Austin Baird @ASBaird]

@natemaklocklin So he’s a catastrophically bad Rep Yet somehow the progressives still couldn’t beat him in a primary.

[Austin Baird @ASBaird]

@natemaklocklin Yeah but I think the DSA is as dangerous for the Dems as MAGA is for the GOP and a DSA takeover of the Dems should be rejected as much as thr MAGA takeover of the GOP

[Austin Baird @ASBaird]

1 - I did and I have like 15 charts proving my point. So we can either spend all day with you pulling charts from Mehdi Hasan and me countering with data from Matt Yglesias or we can both acknowledge that we’re able to find data that proves whatever we want it to prove.

2 - yeah and that fact still remains that Michigan hasn’t elected a GOP Senator in 32 years and voted for Biden and AES won by 2 points more than freaking South Carolina and half as much as the Dem in Texas (both of whom are and present as far more moderate than AES). It’s an objective underperformance.

4 - nobody is saying that. I’m saying that McAdams won a competitive house district and that that is not true for any leftist candidate. It’s true that the Dems could run the corpse of Mao and win this district now, but McAdams was able to win it before it was drawn up specifically to give the Dems a district. The simple fact is that the scoreboard shows the leftist faction of the Dem party with 0 congressional wins and 0 primary wins even in a district drawn specifically for Dems.

[Austin Baird @ASBaird]

1 - all the analyses I’ve seen say the exact opposite (and that moderates outperformed leftists). On average 5 points behind the statewide House vote. El-Sayed ran 2 points behind, Flanagan 3 points behind, and Jackson 10 points behind.

2 - In a cycle in which a Dem won Texas by 14 points and another Dem won South Carolina!!! by 4 points, a 7 point win by AES in a state that voted for Biden and that already had two democratic senators is objectively unimpressive.

3 - still doesn’t disprove #1

4 - actually he is “literally” a Democrat and, according to the scoreboard, the only democrats capable of winning federal offices in Utah are the squishy moderates you hate so much.

As a voter in the Romney Republican, Blue Dog Dem category, I want a functional Utah Democratic Party capable of challenging the state GOP and forcing them to run capable moderates, so I’ll acknowledge my personal interest here. But trying to pretend that a state dominated by LDS conservatives is somehow going to go blue if the Dems run hard left seems to ignore objective reality.