Pam Farino

Born & raised Long Islander; NY refugee who loves TN

[Miranda Devine @mirandadevine]

So infuriating and tragic. Hard to believe we lived through all that just a few years ago. Trump's instinct was right but the experts and the shadow manipulators conspired to discredit, disparage, demoralize, and dislodge him. Pfizer even delayed announcing its "miracle" shot until after the election to deny him an advantage. The public didn't know then that it wasn't really a vaccine and didn't prevent transmission. Yet the experts kept lying and censored even harder. Elon broke the censorship grip, and we finally saw clearly what the experts did to us. Or half of us did. Half of us still will gratefully swallow any lie. That's the scariest thing. Thank you @mazemoore

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

RE: NeverTrumpers

I have always found it very difficult to understood the philosophical underpinnings of self-proclaimed "conservative" NeverTrumpers.

No President in the history of the USA has done more to reduce the size, scope and power of the federal administrative state than Donald Trump.

Other than Ronald Reagan, no President in any of our lifetimes has done more to promote capital investment, industrial growth, and improved economic standards for the average American than Donald Trump.

Other than Ronald Reagan and JFK, no President in any of our lifetimes has done more to promote American patriotism and pride in America than Donald Trump.

No President in any of our lifetimes has done more to promote freedom of speech and freedom of religion than Donald Trump.

Last time I checked, the bedrock principles of American conservatism are limited government, capitalism, patriotism and liberty.

Donald Trump's policies are the very essence of conservatism.

So why are these people "NeverTrumpers"?

My theory is that they see conservatism as a club: a club whose entry credentials consist of elite prep schools, Ivy League universities, the "prestige" of being part of old-line institutions and media, and well-manicured pinkies in the air at afternoon tea.

And they don’t want Donald Trump in their club.

Donald Trump is none of what they are. He is from Queens. He has the wrong accent. He went to the wrong schools. He is crass and loud and bombastic. Although wealthy by birth, nothing pleases him more than getting down in the dirt with the workers who built his buildings. Despite his wealth, he is the everyman at heart.

There is only one logical conclusion: NeverTrumpers do not care the slightest about actual political conservatism. They care about being elite snobs, which is why they sacrifice whatever values they once proclaimed to hold so they could hate on someone who crashed the gate at their posh, private club.

They are Judge Smails and Trump is Al Czervik.

This is about social class and nothing else.

Treat those people with the righteous disdain they have so completely earned.

[Charles V Payne @cvpayne]

.@RoKhanna you might want to get off the confiscation bandwagon.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 BREAKING: Foreign-born Biden judge Sparkle Sooknanan (yeah, that's her actual name) has just BARRED the Trump admin from checking citizenship data for voters, per AP

Democrats are TERRIFIED about illegals no longer being able to vote

The federal government was using a federal database to PURGE ILLEGAL VOTERS. And a judge just put a stop to that.

Insanity. Bring it all the way up to SCOTUS!

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

Our Senate shouldn’t be going on vacation,

especially if it isn’t passing legislation.

Can any of you remember the last time you went on a paid vacation for over a month?

[Promethean Action @PrometheanActn]

On his way out, Biden pardoned two people. His son Hunter. And Dr. Tony Fauci. Both pardons start the clock on the exact same month: January 2014.

That's not a coincidence. That's a confession.

@BarbaraMBoyd connects the dots 👇

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

@LeaderJohnThune @TaxCuts Cool.

Let’s pass the SAVE America Act now.

As I’ve been asking you to do for months, please bring it up now and announce that we will debate it until it passes.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

@LeaderJohnThune @TaxCuts Our Senate shouldn’t be going on vacation,

especially if it isn’t passing legislation.

Can any of you remember the last time you went on a paid vacation for over a month?

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

@TomCottonAR If you actually care, then your number 1 priority should be the SAVE America Act.

Many of our problems will be solved overnight simply from having fair elections.

[Maria Bartiromo @MariaBartiromo]

Alan Greenspan has died at the age of 100 ...he certainly was the dominant central banker of the late 20th century, guiding U.S. monetary policy through booms and busts. #RIP Join us now @MorningsMaria @FoxBusiness

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

On this Father’s Day, let’s honor America’s Founding Fathers.

We can do that by encouraging the Senate to find the legislative courage to pass the SAVE America Act.

It will be hard, but worth it.

[Pam Farino @Ja681]

@data_republican @SoCalValleyGal 100%

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A British physiologist named Brett Gooden published a paper in 1994 that quietly proved every human walking around on this planet has an emergency reset button hidden in the skin of their face, and almost nobody knows how to use it.

His name is mostly forgotten outside diving medicine. The paper is called "Mechanism of the Human Diving Response," and the body of research it kicked off has been replicated by neuroscientists, cardiologists, and physiologists in labs across the world for the last thirty years.

The mechanism it described is the single fastest way to lower a human heart rate that has ever been documented.

The discovery actually began long before Gooden formalized it. Physiologists had noticed for decades that seals, whales, dolphins, and otters could slow their heart rates dramatically the moment their faces touched water, allowing them to dive for long periods without running out of oxygen.

The question Gooden helped answer was whether the same reflex existed in humans, and what exactly triggered it.

The answer turned out to be a network of nerves almost nobody outside neurology had paid attention to.

The trigeminal nerve is one of the largest nerves in your head, and it covers the entire surface of your face, especially the area around your eyes, nose, forehead, and mouth. When cold water touches that skin, the trigeminal nerve fires a signal straight into the brainstem, which then routes a command through the vagus nerve directly to the heart.

The vagus nerve is the master switch of your parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part of the body responsible for calm, recovery, and the slowing of the heart.

The entire signal chain takes about a second to complete. Cold water hits the face. Trigeminal nerve fires. Vagus nerve responds. The heart slows.

Human heart rate has been documented to drop anywhere from 5 to over 50 percent during this response, depending on the temperature of the water, how much of the face is covered, and how strongly the person is holding their breath.

In infants the response is so powerful that it has been implicated in cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, because the same reflex that protects a baby underwater can be triggered accidentally by bedding pressed against the face during sleep.

The reflex is called the mammalian dive reflex, and the broader nerve circuit it sits inside is called the trigeminocardiac reflex.

Researchers who study it now consider it the single most powerful autonomic reflex in the human body, which means it is faster and stronger than almost any other automatic response your nervous system is capable of producing.

The detail Gooden zeroed in on is the part that should matter most to anyone who has ever had a panic attack, a racing heart at 3am, or a moment of overwhelming anxiety they could not breathe their way out of.

Two ingredients trigger the response. The water has to be cold, ideally under about 15 degrees Celsius, and it has to touch the area around the forehead, eyes, and nose. The skin of the cheeks and chin alone is not enough.

The receptors that fire the reflex are concentrated in the upper face, which is exactly the part of a seal that hits the water first when it dives. Evolution kept that wiring intact in humans even though we stopped diving for our food a long time ago.

This is why splashing cold water on your face during a moment of panic actually works. It is not psychological. It is not a placebo. You are activating a neurological circuit that has been sitting in your body since before your species walked upright, and the circuit does exactly what it was built to do.

A psychiatrist at Harvard named Marsha Linehan eventually wrote this exact protocol into a dialectical behavior therapy technique she called the cold water dive, which she taught to patients in acute emotional crisis. The instruction was simple.

Fill a bowl with cold water and ice. Hold your breath. Submerge your face from the forehead down to the chin for thirty seconds. Within the first ten seconds, the heart begins to slow. By the time the face comes out of the water, the body has shifted out of fight-or-flight and into the parasympathetic state that makes thinking clearly possible again.

Emergency room physicians have used the same trick to reset abnormal heart rhythms in patients with certain types of tachycardia for decades. They call it the diving reflex maneuver.

A bag of ice water held against the face for fifteen to thirty seconds can convert a runaway heart rhythm back to normal without a single drug being administered.

Same nerve. Same reflex. Same biology your ancestors used to hunt for fish underwater two hundred thousand years ago.

The strangest part of all of this is how few people know it exists. The cold plunge industry has built itself into a billion-dollar movement based on full-body cold exposure, ice baths, and dramatic protocols that require expensive equipment and serious commitment.

But the fastest, most underrated nervous system reset available to a human being requires a sink, a few seconds, and the upper half of your face.

Your nervous system has an emergency brake. You were born holding the handle.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Good chat with President Trump tonight

He’s not giving up on the SAVE America Act

Neither am I

He’s as convinced as I am that we can get this done if the Senate’s willing to do the hard work

Pass it on if you’d like to see that happen

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

This is day 171 of asking @LeaderJohnThune to pass the SAVE America Act.

[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

Our species survived hundreds of thousands of years without a daily warning about the next existential pathogen. Now every outbreak is a potential global catastrophe, and the language of emergency has become permanent.
David Bell asks a simple question: why?

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4

[Just the News @JustTheNews]

BREAKING: @jsolomonReports to temporarily step aside in role as editor-in-chief to assist the government in identifying classified or withheld documents concerning weaponization and election integrity. @AmandaHead

[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

The official story of alpha-gal syndrome is tidy. A lone star tick bites you, and months later you can no longer eat red meat. Tidy stories should make you suspicious. Here is what the tidy version leaves out. 🧵

[John Rose @JohnRoseforTN]

Tennesseans are being priced out of our own state. It's time to get real about this problem. When new residents and businesses move in, they should help pay for the cost of the new infrastructure it takes to accommodate them.