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@Ric_RTP From Gemini:

Walmart is selling you an unprofitable TV that watches everything you do and reports it back to their $6.4 billion advertising machine. And the TV literally won't turn on until you give them permission. This is one of the most sophisticated consumer surveillance operations in history and 150 million people walk into their stores every single week with no idea it's happening. Here's the full story: In December 2024, Walmart bought Vizio for $2.3 billion. Everyone assumed it was about selling more TVs. But it had nothing to do with TVs. Vizio's TV hardware business was actually LOSING money, posting a $6.7 million loss in its final quarter as an independent company. The advertising division made $115.8 million in profit that same quarter. Walmart bought 19 million living rooms - not a TV company. In March 2026, Walmart flipped the switch. Every new Vizio TV now requires a mandatory Walmart account before you can access any smart features. No account, no streaming apps. Without signing in, your TV is useless. The moment you create that account, something called Automatic Content Recognition activates. ACR runs silently in the background, taking screenshots of everything displayed on your screen and comparing them against a database to identify exactly what you're watching, second by second, across 700 TV networks and over 100 streaming apps. It knows what you watched, when you watched it, how long you watched it, and what you did afterward. Now here's the part that makes this genuinely unprecedented in the history of retail: Walmart ALREADY knows what 150 million Americans buy every week. They know your grocery habits, your clothing preferences, your pharmacy purchases, your financial behavior through Walmart Pay, and your location data from the app. But what they couldn't see was the 4 to 6 hours a day Americans spend staring at their television screens. By connecting your Walmart account to your Vizio TV, they've closed that loop. They can now prove that you saw a 30 second ad for gardening soil Sunday night and bought that exact brand at Walmart Monday morning. L'Oréal is already signed on as a launch partner for this kind of targeting. The math on this is just insane: Walmart Connect, their advertising arm, generated $6.4 billion last year with 46% year-over-year growth. Advertising runs at 70 to 90% profit margins compared to traditional retail's 3 to 4%. Their CFO admitted that ads and membership fees already account for one-third of Walmart's total operating income. The advertising business is now more important to Walmart's bottom line than entire product categories in their stores. And they're just getting started. Analysts calculated that Walmart's ad revenue currently represents only 1% of total sales. Amazon's ad business runs at 8% of sales. The gap between where Walmart is and where Amazon is represents roughly $50 billion in untapped advertising revenue. The Vizio deal is the bridge to get there. This is WHY they're selling certain TVs at a loss. When you break down the $2.3 billion acquisition across 19 million households, Walmart paid $121 per living room. A lifetime of behavioral viewing data from a household that also shops at Walmart is worth infinitely more than that. The cheap TV is a trojan horse. Vizio has already been fined $2.2 million by the FTC for secretly collecting viewing data on 11 million TVs without consent. The Texas Attorney General sued them for "spying on Texans." Walmart bought them anyway and made the surveillance MANDATORY. The company that built its empire promising everyday low prices is becoming the most powerful advertising platform in the world, and the TV in your living room is the entry point. What do you think?

@lizpeek CORRECT! And we'd have to hold runoffs and deal with other complications anyway.

The Founders were rights the entire country should not be governed by NYC & LA

@NotJoshGeyer This system reigned until the Easy Start system, and even after. The simple wind-and-release was ingenious!

This is fucking sick. We live in the ruins of a great civilization

See this Instagram post by @williamshatner instagram.com/p/DXoz_1JEXBS/…

@klipper421 @catturd2 Repost worthy.

LOL - funny because it's true.

@JohnQPinkney @catturd2 Oh, and remember the Vietnam War? The draft?

@catturd2 It always blows my mind how whiney Gen Z-ers complain about how bad they got it now. When I was 20: - The mortage rate was 18% - Inflation and unemployment were so bad, they invented a new word for it: "stagflation" - we all knew we could be dead in 20 mins at any moment.

@RealDeanCain Seems sketchy.🤔

@YooglyZoogly @paolomossetti @espressonline In 1946, the Italian Ministry of the Interior (under Mario Scelba) estimated that 8,000 to 10,000 people were killed in these post-war purges. Some historians suggest the number is closer to 12,000-15,000...

@paolomossetti @espressonline Good. It was the Italian Communists who made sure Mussolini got his earthly penance. They don't play.

💥1983: meet a young Robert Prevost, the future Pope Leo XIV, protesting alongside other Catholic priests against the Cruise missiles installed by Reagan at the U.S. base in Comiso, Sicily. Prevost joined a march organized by the Italian Communist Party. (via @espressonline)

@Mac80277103 @AntiWokeMemes "You had a disadvantage." "I had a disadvantage?" "You were insane." But up until and after that insanity thing, you're a really smart guy.

@AntiWokeMemes Dr Hannibal Lecter in a heartbeat.

@forty_year @DefiantLs They're better than you because they're more empathetic. Yes, I know it's suicidal empathy, but darn it, they feel more than you...🤣🤣

@DefiantLs Why do liberals think the only way a person can be smart is by going to college????

“If you're a Trump supporter… drop your college degree in the comments before you start talking sh*t!”

@MicahCathey1983 @RealDeanCain Yet somehow, the Democrats in the US Senate have not forced him to resign as they would any Republican Senator.

@RealDeanCain Very useful idiot.

Happy to see this hypocritical self-righteous piece of 💩 implode. Eaten by the monster he helped create.

@RealDeanCain Yes, she may have to wait for treatment, but she got it, I'll bet.

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@Beastie1958 @RapidResponse47 Can you respond to the issues the Virginia Governor is facing without referencing Trump? Can you write about California's & Minnesota's issues w/o referencing Trump? Anything without Trump in your response?

@RapidResponse47 Seriously? Don’t you think you should be having a meeting with yourself for all the debt and crap you’ve created?

@secretskye22 Yep. They're "blasting" the same message to EVERYONE!

I take so much pride in knowing I am the ONLY person who runs any of my accounts. I put in 10-12 hours of work per day.

@BurtMacklin_FBI Hahaha

Criminals would never break the law because laws make breaking the law illegal. Solid argument.

🚨 BREAKING: CIA Director John Ratcliffe has just put out A BOMBSHELL INTELLIGENCE REPORT finding that the Obama administration ordered the FBI NOT to investigate or pursue criminal charges against then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for illegal retention of classified documents under The Espionage Act. The report cites former FBI agent Lisa Page (who played a key role in cooking up the Russiagate hoax against President Trump) UNDER OATH claiming that she and other FBI agents were told by Obama’s White House to leave Clinton alone. This means that James Comey also lied to Congress when he testified at a Congressional hearing that the FBI received no “outside pressure” to influence the Clinton investigation or potential charging decisions. This is just another one of the laundry list of crimes and cover-ups committed by Barack Hussein Obama and his treasonous administration. He will be remembered as the most corrupt President in American history. The Democrats accuse President Trump of weaponizing federal law enforcement to protect his friends and target his enemies… But we now know that this is exactly what Obama actually did. OBAMAGATE AIN’T GOING AWAY… Thank you to CIA Director Ratcliffe for releasing this TRUTH BOMB. ARREST OBAMA NOW!

Yes, the story is real. On Feb 13, 2026, in Delta Township, Michigan, 21-year-old Alexander Lamar Banks Jr. drove his car into a family walking with their 3-year-old daughter Harlow Smith in a pink wagon, then exited and fired a shotgun, killing Harlow and injuring her parents Cameron (37) and Paige (33). A 72-year-old neighbor, Barb Cook, who intervened was beaten with the gun, suffered brain injury and facial trauma requiring surgery, and remains in a coma. Banks faces first-degree murder and other charges. Confirmed by Eaton County Sheriff's Office, court docs, WLNS, WILX, Lansing State Journal, and GoFundMe for victims.

@popax420 @MariaBartiromo @FoxBusiness @MorningsMaria What?

@MariaBartiromo @FoxBusiness @MorningsMaria

Trump launches nationwide crackdown on federal benefit fraud, taps VP JD Vance to lead ‘war on fraud’ | video.foxbusiness.com/v/6390732260112 @FoxBusiness @MorningsMaria

@westtexaspirate @MariaBartiromo @FoxBusiness @MorningsMaria Not necessarily. When President Clinton named VP Gore as his point man on fraud, he tracked it down and eliminated a boatload of it. All anyone has to do is file a verifiable report on what they found and did. Like Harris could've done on the border & root causes.

@MariaBartiromo @FoxBusiness @MorningsMaria A crackdown that will be forgotten in a matter of months. Rs will be on some new talking point all the while knowing that fraud is massive and is bankrupting this country, both financially and morally.