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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦

@rallymodeller.bsky.social
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Lover of hopeless cars and cats. Trying to be kinder every day. Leftie. Canadian who loves his nation, and has for long before the Convoyers came along. Big on real history, alternate history, anime and manga. (he/him)

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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 9h
causing the closing of some of the Canadian loopholes that had allowed the importation of cars that, while lukewarm in the US, would have been hot stuff here. This cooling of trade might be perfect for a reset. The opening of our market to Chinese EVs may be just the thing.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 9h
In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, GM killed off the Pontiac brand despite desperate pleas from the vast Canadian dealer network and buying public. It just wasn't that big of a deal in the US, after all. The Canadian government was pressured in adopting US vehicle regulation standards,
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 9h
NAFTA killed that outright. US manufacturers were no longer beholden to the Canadian consumer. Canadians would buy what Americans wanted (or were told to want) whether we liked it or not. The small hatchback, a staple of Canadian roads, disappeared in less than a model cycle.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 9h
Under Autopact these preferences could still survive. Canada retained our own vehicle standards apart from the American FVSS, which meant that companies like Lada and Hyundai could export here and do well -- very well on Hyundai's part, the Pony was a breakaway success. Bargains could still be had!
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 9h
Traditionally, Canadians liked smaller and/or more fuel-efficient offerings, and were less interested in highly-contented luxury vehicles. For decades the Honda Civic was the best selling car here. Even when it came to trucks, Canadians generally preferred more Spartan, purpose-oriented choices.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 9h
Even apart from how our manufacturing has been affected, the Autopact and its successors demonstrated the failings of that kind of free-trade agreement to consumers. Canadians had (and still have!) very specific automobile buying habits, and they've been absolutely overwhelmed by the US market.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Paul Williams is a god among men, songwriting-wise
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Libby Creates: Kermit's Rainbow Connection Banjo
Alt: Libby Creates: Kermit's Rainbow Connection Banjo
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He says the call woke him up from the dream
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My read has always been that Susan is an ex who is trying to remain friends
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I have a very hard time ranking Hip songs. What's best depends on what mood I'm in; Nautical Disaster is right up there when I'm feeling vindictive. "Anyway, Susan" is one of the most vitriol-laced two-word song lyrics ever.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Threats of Taiwanese invasion are overblown. China simply does not have the logistical capability to launch an invasion. They can siege the island, but invasion is out of the question.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That's a nice plant you got there in Hamilton, Cleveland-Cliffs. Lotta history at Stelco. Lotta history. Jeez, it'd be a damned shame if someone... *cracks knuckles* NATIONALIZED IT.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Now you have to go to the next level: multiple carb synch. My son calls it rainbow-chasing.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The hell you say! Some people!
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
and Sloan and The Tragically Hip and Spoons and Loverboy and Platinum Blonde and Tegan and Sara and Caribou and Rush and Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Constantines and Our Lady Peace and Camera Obscura and and and I'm a BIG fan of Can Con.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There's a video on the Webs of a guy on a Zoom call drinking a White Claw and when his boss calls him out on it he holds up a can of Celsius. He then goes back to the White Claw. Hilarity ensues.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"The GOP isn't passing His Majesty's plan. Also, that plan sucks."
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Stop posting AI slop
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Why would anyone go to Wendy's when Harvey's exists? The mind boggles.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Might be. Got a timing light to throw on it?
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Timing looks off.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Worst part: it's not even an original idea. Roko's Basilisk is just Pascal's Wager with extra steps.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Only owned one. BUT I SHALL HAVE ANOTHER
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Same. I want my time in my car to be fun. Gridlocked cities and traffic jams are not fun.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Mark Carney, PC, OC, MP, Fourth Internationalist
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Edmonton. Possibly Saskatoon.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
He's pissy because Zelenskyy is up here being treated like a rock star
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the One Ring.
Image of The Tick
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Because they invaded the South and were beaten back by UN forces until Chinese "volunteers" overwhelmed them with superior numbers? Don't ever simp for the totalitarian state. It's not a good look.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Matt Frewer would *never*.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The St. Clair, and for some of my formative years the Mattagami, the Ottawa and the Bow
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
...because the announcement showed up in a Croatian-language newspaper and they shared the same not-uncommon Croatian last name. Deda went to Montreal, bailed her out of jail, they got married, and moved back to Timmins, ON where he was a hard-rock miner.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It wasn't until after they had both died that my father revealed that my paternal grandmother was an ethnic Croatian mail-order bride from what is now Bosnia, who was on the verge of being sent back (because the original "buyer" refused her) when my grandfather found her in a Montreal jail...
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
He can get his flunky at the FAA to pull Bombardier's airworthiness certificates, or refuse to certify new aircraft. Of course since Bombardier's customers right now are the US military and VERY RICH PEOPLE that won't go over well.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Songs I am banned from playing while highway driving 1. La Grange -- ZZ Top 2. Canned Heat -- Jamiroquai 3. Rez/Cowgirl -- Underworld (Live, Brussels 1998) 4. Atom Bomb -- Fluke 5. Lick Shot -- Gorgon City
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
As I have often said, I have only a vague idea who my Supreme Court of Canada justices are, and I like it that way.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Which was the title of the manga the story was derived from
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I always joke that my local accent is basically Letterkenny, but we say "Howya doin'?" instead of "Harya now?" I have seen some dialect creep, though. "Soda" is starting to make inroads.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Eastern Canadians seem to be getting roughly the same heat map more or less. Interesting.
Dialect map of the United States, made by a Canadian
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Chapman's drumsticks are absolutely superior
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Please stop opining on topics you don't understand, in this case, the entity called "Canada" and the people called "Canadians". We're not Americans, and our entire history has been about *not becoming a vassal state to the US*.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Do you understand how elections work? If "did not vote" was a party, it would have won the 2024 election in the most massive landslide in American history. It doesn't matter how many voted Elon flipped. The actual majority of your country is too brain dead to give a shit. That's the problem.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
You, for example, are whining online and getting mad at people who are being bullied by a bigger country.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Just unable, eh? Amazing. Americans: not beating the stereotypes for 250 years.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I have found that the best indicator of a personality is how they treat angry victims. HINT: you're attacking a victim right now because they're not appreciative enough of your apology. Guess the sorrow you showed earlier was pretty hollow, eh? Reflect on that.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Gee, I'm really sorry you're upset. Do you want a fucking tissue? Stop apologizing, for fucks' sake. Whether or not you voted for this DOES NOT MATTER.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I fail to see how this is any less the US' problem. Did you want *us* to fix it? I mean, whining is also "doing something" in the loosest sense.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
No, the majority of Americans either voted for this or couldn't be bothered to get off their asses to prevent it. This is *your* mess, whether you like it or not. We in Canada are bystanders to the US's continual fucking up.
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Do you at least get to eat the crumbs? I mean, as a courtesy
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Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Short version: I was doing ground crew work for my Air Cadet squadron's glider day back in the '80s. I had to tell the pilot something, and jogging up to the pilot's door I tripped and fell towards the running prop. I was less than a foot away from it. Had to go have a rest after that.
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