John Ruskauff

CEO of Retirement Testing Inc., University of Utah

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

👁️ The Erdman Revelation: What It Actually Means

James Erdman III isn’t some fringe figure. He’s a 30-year CIA veteran, former senior operations officer. When someone with that pedigree uses the phrase “shadow government” on the record, it’s not a conspiracy theory anymore — it’s a witness statement.

🔍 What Erdman Confirmed

The core of his disclosure isn’t new to anyone who’s been paying attention, but the on-the-record nature of it changes things:

1. The PDB is manipulated: the President’s Daily Brief — the most sensitive intelligence document in the world — gets “massaged” by career officials who decide what the president should and shouldn’t know. That’s not oversight. That’s gatekeeping dressed up as professionalism.

2. The “adults in the room” doctrine. This is the phrase that should make everyone’s skin crawl. The idea that unelected bureaucrats view themselves as guardians who must protect the country from its own elected leadership. That’s not democracy. That’s a soft oligarchy with a security clearance.

3. The FBI task force lead admitting it. When someone running an FBI task force openly says she’s “basically running a shadow government,” that’s not a whistleblower leaking — that’s someone so comfortable with the arrangement they’ll admit it in conversation.

🧠 The Structural Problem

This isn’t about Trump specifically. The machinery was there before him, and it’ll be there after. The issue is structural:

- Career officials outlast administrations — they can wait out any president they dislike
- Classification power means they control what information reaches elected leaders and the public
- No electoral accountability — you can’t vote out a GS-15 at the CIA
- The revolving door ensures loyalty to the institution, not the Constitution

The “deep state” was never about lizard people or secret bunkers. It’s about this: a permanent governing class that believes it knows better than the people’s representatives.

📋 What Erdman Didn’t Say (But Implied)

When a career CIA officer describes the PDB being manipulated, he’s describing a system where:

- Intelligence is selectively presented to shape presidential decisions

- Investigations into election integrity get slow-walked by people who oppose them

- The “intelligence community” functions as an internal opposition party

🎯 The Bottom Line

Erdman’s disclosure matters because it comes from inside the priesthood. This isn’t Alex Jones. This is a man who spent three decades in the temple, walked out, and told us what the high priests say when the doors are closed.

The question now isn’t whether the deep state exists. It’s whether anything can be done about it — and whether Americans are willing to accept that their votes only matter if the permanent bureaucracy allows them to.

h/t @C__Herridge

🔗 https://t.co/LxMXpTBOoK

[John Ruskauff @JRuskauff]

Let’s Go! Only 67 days until @utahmammoth opening night puck drop! #tusksup

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@POTUS: A video surfaced recently of Ilhan Omar giving a speech referring to World War Two as World War Eleven. I'm not surprised... she also calls her brother 'husband #1.'

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Trump: "I want to personally congratulate CNN's Kaitlan Collins... I thought she had really made it big with a major new sponsorship, but then I informed her that it wasn't her on the Bud Light can, it was Dylan Mulvaney."

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Rep. Boebert to Smithsonian Director: Tens of millions of babies. Where's their history? Is that not part of our American history? Or is it only what you care about, white privilege, whiteness.. Over 50 million babies aborted.

[Dabar Echad @DabarEchad]

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[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

The Spanish team wanted Trump to stay and lift the trophy with them…

This a good reminder for the left that they operate in a small echo chamber.

[John Ruskauff @JRuskauff]

@mamboitaliano__ #perfection

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

After tonight, it’s even clearer that the Senate should take the SAVE America Act and continue debating it until it passes

Repost if you agree

[Q The Storm Rider @Q_TheStormRider]

🚨BREAKING: SecDef Pete Hegseth stares right at the press and goes scorched earth, spelling out their insanity. I could watch this all day.

"You, and I mean specifically YOU, the press, you cheer against Trump so hard, it's in your DNA and in your blood to cheer against Trump, because you want him not to be successful so bad, you have to cheer against the efficacy of these strikes. You have to hope maybe they weren't effective."

"Maybe the way the Trump administration is representative isn't true. So let's take half truths, spun information, leaked information, and then spin it, spin it in every way we can to try to cause doubt and manipulate the mind, the public mind, over whether or not our brave pilots were successful."

"How many stories have been written about how hard it is to, I don't know, fly a plane for 36 hours? Has MSNBC done that story? Has Fox? Have we done the story how hard that is?"

"There are so many aspects of what our brave men and women did that because of the hatred of this press corps are undermined because people are trying to leak and spin that it wasn't successful. It's irresponsible."

"You're undermining the success of incredible B-2 pilots and incredible F-35 pilots and incredible refuelers and incredible air defenders who accomplished their mission."

"How about we talk about how special America is, that only we have these capabilities? I think it's too much to ask, unfortunately, for the fake news. So we're used to that."

Do you firmly support Pete Hegseth on this?

FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING.

[John Kennedy @SenJohnKennedy]

The Graham Platner wing of the Democratic Party hates George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Dr. Seuss, Mr. Potato Head and our free enterprise system.

But they sure love taking your money and your freedom.

[Maciej Łaszkiewicz @maciejlasz]

Pierwszy w historii przykład człowieka, który podczas popołudniowego spaceru strzelił gola na wagę awansu do ćwierćfinału Mistrzostw Świata

[CHIEF i k u k u 1 🇳🇴 @IEruona]

As Ødegaard was breaking up the scuffle, Haaland casually ran over and drank the Brazilian goalkeeper's water. 😂😂😂

[John Ruskauff @JRuskauff]

@BasedMikeLee But don’t you think it is “kind of” important for you-us to know the condition of a U.S. senator?

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: In a stunning blow to the "experts," Japanese automaker Toyota has REFUSED to produce the Tacoma pickup truck in Mexico — instead opting for TEXAS, USA as part of a $3.6 billion investment

ANOTHER TRUMP WIN! 🇺🇸🇯🇵

Texas is set to gain 2,000 jobs from this investment alone 👏🏻

This is exactly what I voted for. And it will ONLY get better from here!

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

Speaking at the America 250 celebration in Washington DC tonight, President Trump said:

“We are made in the courage, fire, flesh, and blood of the best and the bravest people this world has ever produced. Tonight, we pledge allegiance to the flag they gave us, and we say, "God bless the immortal patriots of 1776, and long live the cause of independence!”

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