Dr. Simon Phillip Thomas

Director of Speech and Debate at Dowling Catholic High School | Endorsements ≠ Retweets | Earn One More

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I've said it before & I'll say it again: if you don't think gently rolling farmland is beautiful you should probably never speak to me again

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@aei_STpodcast @jaycost @SeanTrende I want to hear the argument for Washington in S tier. The podcast took it for granted, but I’ve always thought he was overrated! Not bad by any stretch, but I think is presidency is not his career highlight!

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@WinWithJMC What was the polling method? Online or phone? RDD?

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@SeanTrende Getting ready for the next episode of Stubborn Things, I see.

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There wasn’t any way to really make the dissertation work, but I just want everyone to know that I was right about the NGA and every headline about them from the last two weeks proves it.

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@josephofiowa @farmerfredai This is your most on brand tweet of all time.

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Justice for Bruce Braley

[Igor Bobic @igorbobic]

Tried asking Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, whether it’s appropriate for ICE to enter homes without a judicial warrant.

“Ask a constitutional lawyer,” he said. “I'm a farmer.”

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Ideology doesn’t exist

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Take our quiz here: https://t.co/Tuk9DFdYdr

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@SeanTrende Wow, sounds great. Not sure if you’ve got access to a syllabus or anything, but as a high school government teacher, I’d love to take a look!

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@SeanTrende This is a HS freshman class?! Impressed that they’d be engaging with The Prince that early!

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@FGawehns I scanned the website a bit and couldn’t find a methodology. A little surprised Iowas map only gets a B. It’s gotta be pretty close to the A threshold

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@kendallkaut @SeanTrende Baylor Debaters Reading Trende Evidence: 2009-2017

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Such a shame that the LSU/Iowa national championship game spawned all this Clark/Reese hatred when we could have all agreed to direct that hate toward Kim Mulkey.

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@josephofiowa @brockpurdy13 I’ve been meaning to reach out about our latest fundraising campaign….

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@SeanTrende My father used to give half credit for answers like this because "knowing what you do not know is half the battle"

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An answer I received from a student on my most recent test

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@ShehanJeyarajah Good thing today was a test day in my American Government class, I could do this instead of teach.

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@ShehanJeyarajah If that is true (which I trust you on) then it's actually Baylor vs. Tech, I think.

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@ShehanJeyarajah So then we end up with tiebreaker (d). Tech's opponents have 25 wins, Baylor's have 23 and BYU's have 20. So Tech gets the 2 spot.

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@ShehanJeyarajah That leaves three teams tied for the second spot.

Tiebreaker (a) can't be used because Baylor and Tech don't play.

Tiebreaker (b) and (c) can't be used because the only common opponent is UCF, who all three teams beat.