Rick S

Nothing matters right now except stopping the Trump Facist agenda. Say Hi for a followback #Resist #BeKind #UniteBlue

[Rick S @gratepool]

Rachel @maddow He's you biggest fan! Can you help spred his message?

[Rick S @gratepool]

Can my 80 year old Father, a Marine Corp vet get a share for flying his colors in deep red Parma Ohio? #NotASucker. #NotALoser

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[Rick S @gratepool]

The dismantling of CBS news and 60 minutes should be a much bigger story.

[Rick S @gratepool]

@SeeRacists Buh bye!

[Elissa Slotkin @ElissaSlotkin]

In December, President Trump called for me to be investigated, arrested, and hanged over a 90-second video that restated existing law.

My lawyer's advice was straightforward: go quiet. Keep your head down. This will blow over.

But in this administration, the reality is that keeping your head down does not keep you safe. Staying quiet when power comes after you does not make the threat go away. It just teaches the people making the threat that it works.

When a president can call for the arrest and execution of a sitting senator for quoting the law, and the expected response is silence, that's a problem that goes way beyond me. That affects every American who works in government, every journalist, every ordinary citizen who might speak up.

A grand jury of ordinary Americans looked at this situation and said no. They understood what was at stake, and I think most Americans do.

We refuse to accept that this is the new normal.

This moment isn't really about me. When the administration is willing to go after a senator this way, it sends a message to every American who might speak up. That should concern people in both parties.

[Rick S @gratepool]

Don't you have to go catch James Bond or something you creepy fucking villan?

[Steven Cheung @StevenCheung47]

It’s 9:30 PM on a Saturday night and President Trump is still in the Oval Office working hard for the American people.

He’s simply one of one.

[Rick S @gratepool]

@SenTuberville Quitter

[Rick S @gratepool]

@BasedMikeLee Fuck off with your indignation. Quit being a fascist dictator and spewing and and maybe ut will stop.

[Rick S @gratepool]

There are 3 truths in life: Death, Taxes and disappointments if you're a Cleveland fan #Cavs

[Rick S @gratepool]

This team makes me nauseous at times #Cavs

[Rick S @gratepool]

I don't care what they say, something is wrong with Mitchell. He can't even make free throws. #Cavs

[Rick S @gratepool]

@JackPosobiec Are you delusional or just stupid or both?

[Rick S @gratepool]

Tyson is giving us life #Cavs

[Rick S @gratepool]

@Gbush91 I don't know if its tired legs or nervs or what but they never go this long without the ability to make open 3s.

[Rick S @gratepool]

@hashjenni Trump cabinet member

[Rick S @gratepool]

Missed open 3, turn over, missed free throw. Nothings changed #Cavs

[Rick S @gratepool]

@ScottJenningsKY Who did you poll? All your buddies at the republican gay club?

[Rick S @gratepool]

I have 0 confidence that the #Cavs can turn this around but I'll remain cautiously optimistic.

[Rick S @gratepool]

What's up with this dudes gut? Is he about to have an alien baby?

[Hera @Hera_Aoe]

Hey so if you guys know of any content creators / streamers who would like to give age of empires II in a competitive setting amongst other streamers why don't you tag them here?

Share it so we can set something up!

[Rick S @gratepool]

If Cleveland wins its in spite of Harden, not because of Harden.