The 'X' Files of Crissy Ryan

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[The 'X' Files of Crissy Ryan @ChristineRyan9]

@NickKouvalis How awful, I hope you're feeling much better.

[The 'X' Files of Crissy Ryan @ChristineRyan9]

Fatal Strategic and Leadership Calculations.
Multiple messaging doesn't coalesce the vote, it sprays shit around, like a Convoy.
I'm with Kory.

[Amanda Galbraith @agalbraith]

I agree with every word of this. And also deeply appreciate a Borg reference.

[The 'X' Files of Crissy Ryan @ChristineRyan9]

Bad blood to review Speed Rail in light Billy Bishop Focus Group? Nope.
On the heels of BB, Parish has pulled the plug on end-runs for DataCentres at this time.
So, goes to 'Staff for further Study' as Councilor Carol says, @NEWSTALK1010
https://t.co/Mom8PG75yZ

[The 'X' Files of Crissy Ryan @ChristineRyan9]

As Oregon always says, "the best deal is at the table".
Go @MarkJCarney !
@NEWSTALK1010.

[The 'X' Files of Crissy Ryan @ChristineRyan9]

Holt is wrong, again.
Blunt instruments create unnecessary battles.
Embargo are counterproductive.
Who has forgotten we froze because NEP?
@NEWSTALK1010

[The 'X' Files of Crissy Ryan @ChristineRyan9]

I heard Lutnick was this great humanitarian who had many many staff losses in 911 and vowed to provide careers for the children of the deceased.
Is he?
Does he not remember Canada's role that day?

[The 'X' Files of Crissy Ryan @ChristineRyan9]

It was mentioned on the morning brief with Preet.
Everything was on the table throughout the 4 hours.
See also, Round 1 & Round 2
@JohnTory in for @MooreintheAM

[The 'X' Files of Crissy Ryan @ChristineRyan9]

Smarty Pants Alexander has played stalking horse to 'likely tired out' Bradford.
Bradford, Conservative leaning has done the door knocking and election prosecution.
Alexander just needs a message.
Gonna be awesome at debates.

[CityNews Toronto @CityNewsTO]

Olivia Chow holds lead over Bradford as Toronto voters split on city's direction, latest poll shows. https://t.co/HlAmCWRGPN

[The 'X' Files of Crissy Ryan @ChristineRyan9]

@agalbraith Too bad Michelle lays out her plan instead of quietly making it happen and taking the helm.
Having exposed her idea, she neuters her possibility of Leadership.

[The 'X' Files of Crissy Ryan @ChristineRyan9]

@agalbraith Except Harper inherited Martin's books, making him the steward of our future, not the breakthrough PM, as was the case with Mulroney.

[The 'X' Files of Crissy Ryan @ChristineRyan9]

I would say, once the OLP leadership is over, Billy Bishop squeaks back in.

[The 'X' Files of Crissy Ryan @ChristineRyan9]

Hoekstra has been virtue signalling Ford's commercial of interference all summer.
Leblanc Moe & Smith have sold Ford down the river in a 'concessions for CUSMA' move.
The deal of the ages is fast becoming a 'run for the exits'.

[Globe Politics @globepolitics]

LeBlanc heading to Washington this week for more trade talks https://t.co/fyIzsb4bMw

[The 'X' Files of Crissy Ryan @ChristineRyan9]

@ScottJenningsKY Looks like recognition of his life, family, faith, military service, public service.
His 5 pillars.

[The 'X' Files of Crissy Ryan @ChristineRyan9]

Nothing changes unless voters are driven to change.
Trump was the change agent and you missed by kilometers wide and kilometers deep.

[The Herle Burly @TheHerleBurly]

🆕 Ben Woodfinden: Reflections on his Party & The Fight for the Soul of Conservatism.

Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! There's drama afoot within the conservative movement in Canada. Fights about what the party stands for and where it's going. It's all over Twitter and it's openly spilling into the pod-verse, national media airwaves, opinions in print, and into the hallways of Parliament. If you're a friend of Air Quotes Media, you know it has been talked about over at Curse of Politics.

Today we talk with one of the most thoughtful voices on the topic: @BenWoodfinden. Ben is an academic, a thinker about Conservative politics, worked for Pierre Poilievre in the run-up to and during the 2025 election, and has been active in this debate for the last couple of weeks.

He doesn't think Poilievre has to leave for the Conservatives to be successful, but he does think they need to broaden their message. He shares his view that the Party needs to adopt a more patriotic position about Canada and demonstrate more love for Canada, including fiercer opposition to what Trump represents. At the same time, he thinks the Conservative Party of Canada's appeal to young people and its disruptive, anti-establishment energy is genuinely onto something and shouldn't be thrown away in the process.

A smart, candid conversation about where conservatism in Canada goes from here. Stay with us.

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[The 'X' Files of Crissy Ryan @ChristineRyan9]

O'Toole, said to be poised to win, can't keep his messaging on track.
Wiped out and gone.

[The Herle Burly @TheHerleBurly]

🆕 Ben Woodfinden: Reflections on his Party & The Fight for the Soul of Conservatism.

Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! There's drama afoot within the conservative movement in Canada. Fights about what the party stands for and where it's going. It's all over Twitter and it's openly spilling into the pod-verse, national media airwaves, opinions in print, and into the hallways of Parliament. If you're a friend of Air Quotes Media, you know it has been talked about over at Curse of Politics.

Today we talk with one of the most thoughtful voices on the topic: @BenWoodfinden. Ben is an academic, a thinker about Conservative politics, worked for Pierre Poilievre in the run-up to and during the 2025 election, and has been active in this debate for the last couple of weeks.

He doesn't think Poilievre has to leave for the Conservatives to be successful, but he does think they need to broaden their message. He shares his view that the Party needs to adopt a more patriotic position about Canada and demonstrate more love for Canada, including fiercer opposition to what Trump represents. At the same time, he thinks the Conservative Party of Canada's appeal to young people and its disruptive, anti-establishment energy is genuinely onto something and shouldn't be thrown away in the process.

A smart, candid conversation about where conservatism in Canada goes from here. Stay with us.

YouTube https://t.co/dTpxOwy1MA
Apple https://t.co/3M3q2Sz1fF
Spotify https://t.co/fgdbSde40Z
TikTok https://t.co/OTQF0HKKqL

[The 'X' Files of Crissy Ryan @ChristineRyan9]

Mulroney v Turner, 4th successive Parliamentarian Grit poised for office, 'Sir, you had a choice'.
Annihilation.

[The Herle Burly @TheHerleBurly]

🆕 Ben Woodfinden: Reflections on his Party & The Fight for the Soul of Conservatism.

Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! There's drama afoot within the conservative movement in Canada. Fights about what the party stands for and where it's going. It's all over Twitter and it's openly spilling into the pod-verse, national media airwaves, opinions in print, and into the hallways of Parliament. If you're a friend of Air Quotes Media, you know it has been talked about over at Curse of Politics.

Today we talk with one of the most thoughtful voices on the topic: @BenWoodfinden. Ben is an academic, a thinker about Conservative politics, worked for Pierre Poilievre in the run-up to and during the 2025 election, and has been active in this debate for the last couple of weeks.

He doesn't think Poilievre has to leave for the Conservatives to be successful, but he does think they need to broaden their message. He shares his view that the Party needs to adopt a more patriotic position about Canada and demonstrate more love for Canada, including fiercer opposition to what Trump represents. At the same time, he thinks the Conservative Party of Canada's appeal to young people and its disruptive, anti-establishment energy is genuinely onto something and shouldn't be thrown away in the process.

A smart, candid conversation about where conservatism in Canada goes from here. Stay with us.

YouTube https://t.co/dTpxOwy1MA
Apple https://t.co/3M3q2Sz1fF
Spotify https://t.co/fgdbSde40Z
TikTok https://t.co/OTQF0HKKqL

[The 'X' Files of Crissy Ryan @ChristineRyan9]

Bush.01 v Carter.
"Read my lips.....
Smoked him.

[The Herle Burly @TheHerleBurly]

🆕 Ben Woodfinden: Reflections on his Party & The Fight for the Soul of Conservatism.

Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! There's drama afoot within the conservative movement in Canada. Fights about what the party stands for and where it's going. It's all over Twitter and it's openly spilling into the pod-verse, national media airwaves, opinions in print, and into the hallways of Parliament. If you're a friend of Air Quotes Media, you know it has been talked about over at Curse of Politics.

Today we talk with one of the most thoughtful voices on the topic: @BenWoodfinden. Ben is an academic, a thinker about Conservative politics, worked for Pierre Poilievre in the run-up to and during the 2025 election, and has been active in this debate for the last couple of weeks.

He doesn't think Poilievre has to leave for the Conservatives to be successful, but he does think they need to broaden their message. He shares his view that the Party needs to adopt a more patriotic position about Canada and demonstrate more love for Canada, including fiercer opposition to what Trump represents. At the same time, he thinks the Conservative Party of Canada's appeal to young people and its disruptive, anti-establishment energy is genuinely onto something and shouldn't be thrown away in the process.

A smart, candid conversation about where conservatism in Canada goes from here. Stay with us.

YouTube https://t.co/dTpxOwy1MA
Apple https://t.co/3M3q2Sz1fF
Spotify https://t.co/fgdbSde40Z
TikTok https://t.co/OTQF0HKKqL

[The 'X' Files of Crissy Ryan @ChristineRyan9]

Coyne/Poilievre Disciple stumbles in forest, low on Kool-aid.

[The Herle Burly @TheHerleBurly]

🆕 Ben Woodfinden: Reflections on his Party & The Fight for the Soul of Conservatism.

Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! There's drama afoot within the conservative movement in Canada. Fights about what the party stands for and where it's going. It's all over Twitter and it's openly spilling into the pod-verse, national media airwaves, opinions in print, and into the hallways of Parliament. If you're a friend of Air Quotes Media, you know it has been talked about over at Curse of Politics.

Today we talk with one of the most thoughtful voices on the topic: @BenWoodfinden. Ben is an academic, a thinker about Conservative politics, worked for Pierre Poilievre in the run-up to and during the 2025 election, and has been active in this debate for the last couple of weeks.

He doesn't think Poilievre has to leave for the Conservatives to be successful, but he does think they need to broaden their message. He shares his view that the Party needs to adopt a more patriotic position about Canada and demonstrate more love for Canada, including fiercer opposition to what Trump represents. At the same time, he thinks the Conservative Party of Canada's appeal to young people and its disruptive, anti-establishment energy is genuinely onto something and shouldn't be thrown away in the process.

A smart, candid conversation about where conservatism in Canada goes from here. Stay with us.

YouTube https://t.co/dTpxOwy1MA
Apple https://t.co/3M3q2Sz1fF
Spotify https://t.co/fgdbSde40Z
TikTok https://t.co/OTQF0HKKqL

[The 'X' Files of Crissy Ryan @ChristineRyan9]

It was a fatal error Ben, Clinton won v Bush.01 when he said,"it's the economy,stupid".
One message, resonated with every voter, not one message for every issue.
One message settled all votes.

[The Herle Burly @TheHerleBurly]

🆕 Ben Woodfinden: Reflections on his Party & The Fight for the Soul of Conservatism.

Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! There's drama afoot within the conservative movement in Canada. Fights about what the party stands for and where it's going. It's all over Twitter and it's openly spilling into the pod-verse, national media airwaves, opinions in print, and into the hallways of Parliament. If you're a friend of Air Quotes Media, you know it has been talked about over at Curse of Politics.

Today we talk with one of the most thoughtful voices on the topic: @BenWoodfinden. Ben is an academic, a thinker about Conservative politics, worked for Pierre Poilievre in the run-up to and during the 2025 election, and has been active in this debate for the last couple of weeks.

He doesn't think Poilievre has to leave for the Conservatives to be successful, but he does think they need to broaden their message. He shares his view that the Party needs to adopt a more patriotic position about Canada and demonstrate more love for Canada, including fiercer opposition to what Trump represents. At the same time, he thinks the Conservative Party of Canada's appeal to young people and its disruptive, anti-establishment energy is genuinely onto something and shouldn't be thrown away in the process.

A smart, candid conversation about where conservatism in Canada goes from here. Stay with us.

YouTube https://t.co/dTpxOwy1MA
Apple https://t.co/3M3q2Sz1fF
Spotify https://t.co/fgdbSde40Z
TikTok https://t.co/OTQF0HKKqL

[The 'X' Files of Crissy Ryan @ChristineRyan9]

One word on loyalty. O'Toole.

[Upper Canadian Cavalier @UCCavalier]

Jenni Byrne is easily the greatest heel in Canadian politics. She is probably the most formidable villain Ottawa’s political class has ever seen. After months of complete radio silence, she drops one single, calculated tweet and set off an absolute nuclear detonation across the online conservative ecosystem.

To the Ottawa bubble, she is a shadowy myth. To anyone who served in Harper's regime or ran ground ops on a national tour, she was the hatchet woman guarding the front door. When you strip away the hysteria from commentators, her baseline political math is brutally accurate.

Canada remains a structurally left of centre country as engineered by Pearson and Pierre Trudeau. The path to a CPC government has never been about converting the suburban Laurentian belt through soft policy or polite moderation. It relies on a fractured left. When the NDP and the Liberals split the progressive vote, the Conservatives walk through the middle. But when Jagmeet Singh signed the supply and confidence agreement, he collapsed the NDP vote split, killing the competition for the Liberals.

The entire CPC war room strategy was dialed in to dismantle Justin Trudeau, and the polling proved it was working. Then the Liberal machine pulled off its ultimate pivot. They swapped Trudeau out for Mark Carney and instantly weaponized the whole Laurentian apparatus. Almost overnight, the legacy media and the Ottawa precinct manufactured an existential panic out of thin air, spinning American political noise and 51st state rhetoric into a fake national emergency.

With their sudden elbows up posturing, they successfully gaslit soft suburban voters and held their electoral coalition together. They managed to pocket an election they had no business winning, proving how smoothly the establishment can mobilize to protect its own power base when it wants to.

Pierre Poilievre was left fighting a rigged demographic map and a fully mobilized media machine. There was no campaign trick or ad buy that could out-maneuver that level of structural coordination.

That exact dynamic is why the squandering of the 2011 majority is the root reason why Pierre lost the last election. When Stephen Harper won his majority, the mandate should not have been administrative management. It should have been total war against the Laurentian state.

In a country where the civil service, the judiciary, the funding bodies, and the media ecosystem are permanently occupied by the left, a rare Conservative majority cannot just pass bills and manage the budget. It has to act like a conquering army. You take their castles, clear out the old partisan holdouts, and garrison those institutional levers with actual right-wing activists and movement loyalists to permanently shift the ground beneath Ottawa's feet. Instead, the Conservative government governed passively, and the Liberal deepstate simply waited out the storm before reasserting control.

You constantly see former operatives try to play this grizzled strategist character on television. Kory Teneycke and Dimitri Soudas can step onto any panel they want to play the seasoned party whisperer, but they will never come within 10 percent of the raw, atmospheric heat Jenni draws the second she walks into a room. She projects a level of unvarnished fear and aura that no PR firm can teach.

Kory loves playing the Chief strategist role for Ford, but when push came to shove in 2025 and Doug Ford needed to decide whether to pull the trigger on a premature provincial election ahead of the federal one, Ford ignored Kory and went directly to Jenni for advice. Kory has always been an over glorified staffer.

You can say what you want about Jenni vs Kory and Dimitri. In politics the only thing that really matters is loyalty and I've never once heard a story of Jenni being disloyal no matter how many shots that have been taken at her. However if we look into Kory and Dimitri we will find the two biggest snakes in Canadian political history.