I was just at the Bangkok international auto show. An Audi RS Q8 top model is 14,425,000 Thai baht. That’s 420,459 USD. Importing a new Chevrolet corvette to Thailand has a 300% tariff.
That same model sells for 154,900 with the same options in the USA.
It's everything like that all in Europa is more expensive, because they were imposing so many taxes everywhere then, when you buy doesn't matter the product you are fucked up. Last example, I look to buy and reserved the new Switch 2 for my kid, it comes out in June. The price for Europa is 469 euro and with game 499.99 Euro. The same product, in Japan, cost 306 euros and with game 429 euro. If you look the price of this one without a game, we paid 163 euros more just because we live in the fucking Europa. And I can give you more, like MacBook Pro and iPhone, where in America is cheaper and Europa so fucking expensive.
You are a great detective, John Leake. Thanks for exposing the hypocrisy of the Trump haters. I thoroughly enjoy my vintage 2001 Dodge Ram with a (coveted) rebuilt 5.9 Cummins Turbo Diesel 4x4, and my 1990 F-250 7.3 Diesel 4x4 with a custom steel flat bed. Both of these tremendous feats of engineering will be operating till Armededdon, right on through the coming depression, when pavement is no longer affordable...except in China. Both can be used to haul the Porches and Audis back to the dealership to have their electronics replaced after the EMP. (just sayin'...). How many tons of tar does it take to make a six lane fast highway, how many gallons of diesel fuel are consumed to build the same highway the urban cars use so wonderfully, by the "global warming" hysterics? There is plenty of hypocrisy left to be exposed John Leake...the fake green people who hate Trump and burn Teslas...live in an asphalt jungle...made out of tar and mined minerals...lighted at night by burning fuel to power the grid...so that they can feel safe from 'boogeymen'... Ooh...the pain of it all. The truth hurts their brain. Have no mercy on them. Please, tell them some more.
Heres a true story for your amusement. I had a developer customer who had married a rich Jewish heiress. One day I went to a meeting at his house instead of the office. When I got there I noticed 4 Cadillacs parked in front. I was only meeting my customer so I asked him "Why do you have 4 Cadillacs". He replied "My wife has a lot of rich friends. They always buy Cadillacs and when the toys start to break down they give it to me and go buy another Cadillac."
Yup, those electronic gadgets, keyless entry, glass instrument panels cost fortune to replace. I have one electronic module in my van that they wanted $1100 to replace. Luckily I can live without it.
Instead of focusing on one tree how about the woods? Trump says he needs tariffs to pay the deficit. What about making it illegal for Governments to take debt?
The other argument, to bring factories back to the USA, won't work. Corporations don't make multi-billion dollar investments on one Government policy which could be changed the next one, just as Biden reversed most of Trumps Executive Orders. If it's not coded into law, it's just wishful unthinking.
Also, there are more pressing issues Trump is not dealing with, especially the life threatening ones!
What’s your best way to wake-up those who didn’t yet?
The more the awakened, the sooner this nightmare will be over!
What’s your experience about asking for an opinion on the following topics?
Why is food poisoning legal? (Rumsfeld forced the FDA approval of Aspartame/Nutrasweet)
That you’ve been lockdowned for nothing? Johns Hopkins meta-analysis of 18000 studies proved that lockdowns didn’t work, and worse, killed people by stopping those with cancer or heart conditions from getting testing and treatment
Could you please explain why no Health Agency researched the 30+ COVID effective cures, but instead censored and banned the doctors successfully applying them? Was it because a successful cure would void the Emergency Use Authorization of the lethal vaccines?
Should every single vaxxed on the planet be suing Pfizer and Moderna for deliberately hiding human DNA plasmids in their vaccines, and Pfizer, for injecting an undisclosed carcinogenic monkey virus (SV40) sequence in the clueless biohacked, as officially recognized by Health Canada and Slovakia?
Failed again? Show 10 secs in the middle of this video (who doesn’t have 10 seconds for you)
(caveat about the beginning: pot destroys your brain + “Raises Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke”)
9/11: two "planes", yet 8 towers down. WTC7 imploded, free falling on its footprint, in a controlled demolition. It was out of reach as well as the unblemished Deutsche Bank. All 7 World Trade Center towers and that bank needed to be rebuilt, not the closer towers not belonging to World Trade Center...
The “owner” took an insurance policy for the WTC against terrorism, months before, when no one was taking them … he didn’t show up for work on 9/11 … just as his 2 grown up siblings.
The inside information about the FUTURE 9/11 event helped masons make trillions by shorting the stock exchange: the records were deleted by the SEC so they wouldn't be prosecuted !!!
There's a plan to slow-murder 95% of the global population by 2050… written on the masonic Georgia guide-stones: “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 … ”:
- Since the 90s, vaccines are weaponized to reduce the population by adding hCG to infertilize women: lab-detected in 30 countries.
- Excess deaths in the first 2 years: 40 million people killed by the lethal injections... so far. COVID was designed as a primer for even more lethal COVID haccines:
2. There's proof of deliberate geoengineering to increase global temperatures and droughts, and decrease albedo by dissolving clouds with satellite and Weather Radars’ Electro-Magnetic Frequencies and through chemtrails.
3. Life involves a carbon cycle. A war on carbon is a war on life, causing crop/food scarcity, increase in food prices and famines. Decarbonization is part of the plan to exterminate 95% of us.
- Apart from sin-empowered demons, what is their main source of power? NOT a coincidence that the USA left dollar convertibility to gold in 1971, precisely triggering the exponential government deficit coupled with the trade deficit and inflation.
Taking down central banking doesn't solve the problem. Their source of free endless money is counterfeiting, fractional reserve banking and financial instruments (e.g. derivatives, debt over debt, compound interest above real growth, etc.). Also, insider information, sabotage, infiltration, manufactured news and events to create profitable market-movements.
This is the Achilles’ heel of all nations: the SSS (Satanic Secret Societies such as masonry) create trillions out of thin air and launder them through their Banks, foundations, and foreign loans and “aid”, with which they buy puppeticians and seats in the boards of the Federal Reserve (the only private-run Central Bank in the world), judiciary, corporations, media, healthcare, universities, foundations, political parties, etc.
The masons’ worst nightmare is that the daydreaming majority wakes up, finds out their crimes, and seek justice. We are a million to one. Until they achieve the CBDC digi-tatorship, they are walking on a tight rope.
We've got a very small window of opportunity to fight or ... die (they want to murder 95% of us).
President John Quincy Adams: “Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.”
Exactly. Politicians only look after their own interests. They keep "borrowing" and live large at our expenses. Historically, the only solution has been guillotine.
Thanks, John, for giving real life examples of the exceptionally high tariffs and taxes Europe adds to US products. What is it that people don’t understand about “reciprocal” tariffs? And Trump is still wanting to impose only 50% of the amount, allowing 50% of the imbalance to remain.
We understand the concept, it's that the number Trump's people came up with are complete bullshit. They are 10-20 times the amount these countries actually charge us. Yes, there are non-monetary barriers, none of the are proportional to these amounts (with the weird exception of India).
And right on cue, the market manipulators are causing panic in the markets by selling a few shares cheap so the they can take out sell-stops and steal peoples money as they panic sell. Absolute crooks!
We had a conversation with an unhinged neighbor recently who bought a new car bc CNN told her with Trump's tariffs, cars would be $10 - 15k more expensive. Her previous car was a 2018 with 26k miles. My husband tried to explain the tariffs to her to no avail.
So there is a tariff / tax / european gouge of $273,615 added to the $115,000 US stingray cost making an American Corvette Stingray a tough sell in Vienna, Austria = US Tariff the hell out of europe.
"I wondered what an American Corvette Stingray costs in Vienna, and I found a dealership that sells them. In the States, the C8Z06 starts around $115,000. In Austria, including all of the taxes (“Preis Brutto”) the car goes for 350,000 Euros."
1 dollar = 0.90 euro 1 euro = 1.11 dollar
The US cost of the stingray $115,000 United States Dollars x .9 = 103,500 Euros "in the US"
350,000 euro stingray cost in Vienna minus the 103,500 euros US cost of the stingray = 246,500 euros tariff / tax / gouge
Luxury cars price vary from location depending on what people can afford. The price of the corvette is wrong in Austria according to the information available on the web. Maybe redo the analysis with a few entry car prices would be more convincing?
Enjoy reading substacks (a lot of them are doing this) that use hard facts on particular products to completely refute the progressive media's doom and gloom narrative. Only an idiot, of which there seems to be an endless supply, would fail to recognize these new "Independence Day" tarrifs are the opening move in negotiations, aka the art of the deal.
People seem to forget (or don't realise) that the reasoning(s) behind the tariffs is multi-pronged and goes well beyond money and in many cases is country specific. Rebuilding and repatriating manufacturing in the US is a major goal. In terms of China, Mexico and Canada it has a great deal to do with getting these countries to do more to stop the drug/human trafficking.
Thank you! Thanks for elucidating. My “what happened” question was rhetorical and meant to frame the mega shifts in foreign government policies and interventions that have brought us to our current imbalances.
I was just at the Bangkok international auto show. An Audi RS Q8 top model is 14,425,000 Thai baht. That’s 420,459 USD. Importing a new Chevrolet corvette to Thailand has a 300% tariff.
That same model sells for 154,900 with the same options in the USA.
And in Germany is 163,550 Euro.
Every country is screwing each other.
It’s about time the USA stops getting stepped on.
It's everything like that all in Europa is more expensive, because they were imposing so many taxes everywhere then, when you buy doesn't matter the product you are fucked up. Last example, I look to buy and reserved the new Switch 2 for my kid, it comes out in June. The price for Europa is 469 euro and with game 499.99 Euro. The same product, in Japan, cost 306 euros and with game 429 euro. If you look the price of this one without a game, we paid 163 euros more just because we live in the fucking Europa. And I can give you more, like MacBook Pro and iPhone, where in America is cheaper and Europa so fucking expensive.
You are a great detective, John Leake. Thanks for exposing the hypocrisy of the Trump haters. I thoroughly enjoy my vintage 2001 Dodge Ram with a (coveted) rebuilt 5.9 Cummins Turbo Diesel 4x4, and my 1990 F-250 7.3 Diesel 4x4 with a custom steel flat bed. Both of these tremendous feats of engineering will be operating till Armededdon, right on through the coming depression, when pavement is no longer affordable...except in China. Both can be used to haul the Porches and Audis back to the dealership to have their electronics replaced after the EMP. (just sayin'...). How many tons of tar does it take to make a six lane fast highway, how many gallons of diesel fuel are consumed to build the same highway the urban cars use so wonderfully, by the "global warming" hysterics? There is plenty of hypocrisy left to be exposed John Leake...the fake green people who hate Trump and burn Teslas...live in an asphalt jungle...made out of tar and mined minerals...lighted at night by burning fuel to power the grid...so that they can feel safe from 'boogeymen'... Ooh...the pain of it all. The truth hurts their brain. Have no mercy on them. Please, tell them some more.
Heres a true story for your amusement. I had a developer customer who had married a rich Jewish heiress. One day I went to a meeting at his house instead of the office. When I got there I noticed 4 Cadillacs parked in front. I was only meeting my customer so I asked him "Why do you have 4 Cadillacs". He replied "My wife has a lot of rich friends. They always buy Cadillacs and when the toys start to break down they give it to me and go buy another Cadillac."
Yup, those electronic gadgets, keyless entry, glass instrument panels cost fortune to replace. I have one electronic module in my van that they wanted $1100 to replace. Luckily I can live without it.
Thanks Fred...that is funny. God bless you.
Instead of focusing on one tree how about the woods? Trump says he needs tariffs to pay the deficit. What about making it illegal for Governments to take debt?
The other argument, to bring factories back to the USA, won't work. Corporations don't make multi-billion dollar investments on one Government policy which could be changed the next one, just as Biden reversed most of Trumps Executive Orders. If it's not coded into law, it's just wishful unthinking.
Also, there are more pressing issues Trump is not dealing with, especially the life threatening ones!
What’s your best way to wake-up those who didn’t yet?
The more the awakened, the sooner this nightmare will be over!
What’s your experience about asking for an opinion on the following topics?
Why is food poisoning legal? (Rumsfeld forced the FDA approval of Aspartame/Nutrasweet)
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/why-is-food-poisoning-legal
Your phone attacking with ultrasonic booms?
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/sound-of-silence-challenge
How could a father get 20 million dollars from the Government?
A 20 sec video of a baby with vax seizures?
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/autism-day-shall-we-celebrate-the
Your opinion about Big Pharma scandals?
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/system-failure-ai-exposes-zero-government
Ready for anti-COVIDiot pills?
Did you know that the PCR-test doesn’t measure sickness and is not suitable for tracing, with up to 90% false positives? It was a PCR-demic!:
https://off-guardian.org/2020/12/18/who-finally-admits-pcr-tests-create-false-positives
https://rumble.com/v6kevka-understanding-pcr-as-a-diagnostic-test-applications-and-pitfalls.html
That Dr. Fauci admitted that there was no scientific basis for social distancing?
https://thefederalist.com/2024/06/04/fauci-admits-there-was-no-scientific-evidence-for-six-foot-social-distancing-rule/
That the CDC admitted that masking was useless against COVID?
https://web.archive.org/web/20211230231436/https://www.dailyveracity.com/2021/07/26/over-50-scientific-studies-conclude-masks-do-nothing-to-prevent-the-spread-of-illness-so-why-do-people-keep-claiming-they-work/
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-08-28-cdc-admits-masks-totally-useless-against-covid.html
That you’ve been lockdowned for nothing? Johns Hopkins meta-analysis of 18000 studies proved that lockdowns didn’t work, and worse, killed people by stopping those with cancer or heart conditions from getting testing and treatment
https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf
Could you please explain why no Health Agency researched the 30+ COVID effective cures, but instead censored and banned the doctors successfully applying them? Was it because a successful cure would void the Emergency Use Authorization of the lethal vaccines?
http://c19early.com
http://bit.ly/research2000
Should every single vaxxed on the planet be suing Pfizer and Moderna for deliberately hiding human DNA plasmids in their vaccines, and Pfizer, for injecting an undisclosed carcinogenic monkey virus (SV40) sequence in the clueless biohacked, as officially recognized by Health Canada and Slovakia?
Failed again? Show 10 secs in the middle of this video (who doesn’t have 10 seconds for you)
https://odysee.com/@ImpossiblyWackedOutWorld:f/WTC-7-Free-Falling:8
(caveat about the beginning: pot destroys your brain + “Raises Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke”)
9/11: two "planes", yet 8 towers down. WTC7 imploded, free falling on its footprint, in a controlled demolition. It was out of reach as well as the unblemished Deutsche Bank. All 7 World Trade Center towers and that bank needed to be rebuilt, not the closer towers not belonging to World Trade Center...
The “owner” took an insurance policy for the WTC against terrorism, months before, when no one was taking them … he didn’t show up for work on 9/11 … just as his 2 grown up siblings.
The inside information about the FUTURE 9/11 event helped masons make trillions by shorting the stock exchange: the records were deleted by the SEC so they wouldn't be prosecuted !!!
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/911-2-planes-3-towers
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/107-911
There's a plan to slow-murder 95% of the global population by 2050… written on the masonic Georgia guide-stones: “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 … ”:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/depopulation-or-extermination
Elections: bought or stolen? Both!
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/2024-elections-bought-or-stolen
Free 100 redpill movies and documentaries:
(don't miss the 1st one, 10 min at 2x, amazing tool for a discussion):
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/wake-up-videos
- Since the 90s, vaccines are weaponized to reduce the population by adding hCG to infertilize women: lab-detected in 30 countries.
- Excess deaths in the first 2 years: 40 million people killed by the lethal injections... so far. COVID was designed as a primer for even more lethal COVID haccines:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-real-covid-timeline
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/not-vaccine-not-gene-therapy-just
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/what-do-bioweapons-have-to-do-with
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/you-are-anti-haccine
The COVID vax infertility bomb will explode in 10-20 years, when the haxxed children grow up.
- You’ll go nowhere and you’ll be happy:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/2050-youll-go-nowhere-and-youll-be
- Elon's top secret: EVs cause cancer
Go green with gasoline!
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/electric-vehicles-cause-cancer
- You are the carbon they want to exterminate! Proven in 3:
1. No one denies that man affects the weather, but science disagrees with the official narrative.
Prehistoric data from ice cores proves that temperature rise precedes carbon release in the atmosphere, not the other way around.
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/best-scientific-sources-to-debunk
2. There's proof of deliberate geoengineering to increase global temperatures and droughts, and decrease albedo by dissolving clouds with satellite and Weather Radars’ Electro-Magnetic Frequencies and through chemtrails.
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/satattack
3. Life involves a carbon cycle. A war on carbon is a war on life, causing crop/food scarcity, increase in food prices and famines. Decarbonization is part of the plan to exterminate 95% of us.
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/carbon-reparations
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/climate-deaths
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/killing-me-softly-with-green-songs
4. Why do they want you to drink cockroach milk?
"DRINK zee bugs": Cockroach Milk The Next Superfood !!!
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/drink-zee-bugs-cockroach-milk-the
- Apart from sin-empowered demons, what is their main source of power? NOT a coincidence that the USA left dollar convertibility to gold in 1971, precisely triggering the exponential government deficit coupled with the trade deficit and inflation.
Taking down central banking doesn't solve the problem. Their source of free endless money is counterfeiting, fractional reserve banking and financial instruments (e.g. derivatives, debt over debt, compound interest above real growth, etc.). Also, insider information, sabotage, infiltration, manufactured news and events to create profitable market-movements.
This is the Achilles’ heel of all nations: the SSS (Satanic Secret Societies such as masonry) create trillions out of thin air and launder them through their Banks, foundations, and foreign loans and “aid”, with which they buy puppeticians and seats in the boards of the Federal Reserve (the only private-run Central Bank in the world), judiciary, corporations, media, healthcare, universities, foundations, political parties, etc.
The masons’ worst nightmare is that the daydreaming majority wakes up, finds out their crimes, and seek justice. We are a million to one. Until they achieve the CBDC digi-tatorship, they are walking on a tight rope.
We've got a very small window of opportunity to fight or ... die (they want to murder 95% of us).
President John Quincy Adams: “Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.”
Satanic Secret Societies for dummies:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/sss-for-dummies
Who are The Powers That SHOULDN'T Be ?
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/criminal-intent
https://www.coreysdigs.com/global/who-is-they/
The end of money and freedom
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/uncle-sam-altman
LBJ killed JFK for the Federal Reserve, Nam and the Israel A-bomb
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/lbj-killed-jfk
Weaponization of Justice: no democracy with Freemasonry!
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/weaponization-of-justice
Illuminati David Rockefeller, finest quotes:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/david-rockefeller-illuminati
Confessions of ex illuminati Ronald Bernard:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/confessions-of-illuminati-ronald
Illuminati Attali, finest quotes:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/attali-illuminati-finest-quotes
Chisholm, father of the WHO’s global pedophilia
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/brock-chisholm-father-of-the-whos
Ex mason Serge Abad-Gallardo:
https://www.ncregister.com/interview/confessions-of-a-former-freemason-officer-converted-to-catholicism
16 laws we need to exit Prison Planet
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/laws-to-exit-planet-prison
Please share, not the articles, but the information! I'm expendable. Saving the free world, is not!
Exactly. Politicians only look after their own interests. They keep "borrowing" and live large at our expenses. Historically, the only solution has been guillotine.
Lol 🤣👍
Here is the reality of Trump's tariffs.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/04/white-house-lacks-financial-literacy-tariffs-show.html#more
EU at its best and our Starmers wants us back in. Nightmare times.
ROLL ON Mr Trump keep upsetting the applecart I love the reactions.
Thanks, John, for giving real life examples of the exceptionally high tariffs and taxes Europe adds to US products. What is it that people don’t understand about “reciprocal” tariffs? And Trump is still wanting to impose only 50% of the amount, allowing 50% of the imbalance to remain.
Read this.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/04/white-house-lacks-financial-literacy-tariffs-show.html#more
We understand the concept, it's that the number Trump's people came up with are complete bullshit. They are 10-20 times the amount these countries actually charge us. Yes, there are non-monetary barriers, none of the are proportional to these amounts (with the weird exception of India).
And right on cue, the market manipulators are causing panic in the markets by selling a few shares cheap so the they can take out sell-stops and steal peoples money as they panic sell. Absolute crooks!
We had a conversation with an unhinged neighbor recently who bought a new car bc CNN told her with Trump's tariffs, cars would be $10 - 15k more expensive. Her previous car was a 2018 with 26k miles. My husband tried to explain the tariffs to her to no avail.
Try living in Australia where you are slogged instantly 33 percent on a car worth over 90k... No it's not a joke Europeans.
So there is a tariff / tax / european gouge of $273,615 added to the $115,000 US stingray cost making an American Corvette Stingray a tough sell in Vienna, Austria = US Tariff the hell out of europe.
"I wondered what an American Corvette Stingray costs in Vienna, and I found a dealership that sells them. In the States, the C8Z06 starts around $115,000. In Austria, including all of the taxes (“Preis Brutto”) the car goes for 350,000 Euros."
1 dollar = 0.90 euro 1 euro = 1.11 dollar
The US cost of the stingray $115,000 United States Dollars x .9 = 103,500 Euros "in the US"
350,000 euro stingray cost in Vienna minus the 103,500 euros US cost of the stingray = 246,500 euros tariff / tax / gouge
246,500 euros x 1.11 conversion rate = $273,615
Luxury cars price vary from location depending on what people can afford. The price of the corvette is wrong in Austria according to the information available on the web. Maybe redo the analysis with a few entry car prices would be more convincing?
Enjoy reading substacks (a lot of them are doing this) that use hard facts on particular products to completely refute the progressive media's doom and gloom narrative. Only an idiot, of which there seems to be an endless supply, would fail to recognize these new "Independence Day" tarrifs are the opening move in negotiations, aka the art of the deal.
Dick Minnis removingthecataract.substack.com
The global freak out of reciprocal tariffs is amazing. It's like all the nations had a sudden infantile tantrum all at once.
People seem to forget (or don't realise) that the reasoning(s) behind the tariffs is multi-pronged and goes well beyond money and in many cases is country specific. Rebuilding and repatriating manufacturing in the US is a major goal. In terms of China, Mexico and Canada it has a great deal to do with getting these countries to do more to stop the drug/human trafficking.
What happened? If I remember right, 50 years ago or so folks used to buy european cars in in Europe and ship them to the US, TO SAVE MONEY!
You were not subject to the VAT (or got a credit/rebate) when the vehicle got shipped.
Thank you! Thanks for elucidating. My “what happened” question was rhetorical and meant to frame the mega shifts in foreign government policies and interventions that have brought us to our current imbalances.
Supply and demand for the win!