All right, people, we are live. It's the Friday before the election. Can you believe it? We're almost there. This is the last weekend. You'll have before the apocalypse. So enjoy it, folks. Get out there. Go camping. Eat some good food. Go dancing. Drink smoke. Whatever you do, this is the weekend to do it because the zombie invasion starts at about

8 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday night and then we don't know what'll happen after that. I actually did stock up on Amiditian yesterday. I saw this ridiculous story. Did you see this? That Walmart stopped the sale of guns and ammo because they're afraid that the looters are going to break into the stores and steal the guns and ammo. I mean, the level of insanity that we're dealing with right now is is actually off the charts. Like you can't make this up in Eocracy 2. We're in it.

Like people buy guns in ammo so that they can protect themselves. That isn't to say bad people don't buy guns. But the guy who's buying the gun right now at Walmart or at the gun shop or whatever is buying it most likely to protect his family, to protect his property, et cetera, et cetera. He's going to Walmart buying it legally. He's not the guy that's buying the gun at Walmart to then run around and loot and shoot people. And the rest of it, those guns are already out there. So Walmart is literally actively stopping people.

From being able to protect themselves. Also, we're seeing all sorts of videos and pictures from across the country, actually. New York City, D.C., Seattle, Portland, everywhere. Everyone's boarding up stores again. And it has that feeling of, remember, a few days before all the rioting started happening way back when it seems like a lifetime ago, only four months ago or so because of George Floyd. There was like a two-day window where suddenly everything was being boarded up. And it was like, well, wait a minute.

If we know this is about to happen, then why are we letting it happen? Shouldn't we maybe be a little more proactive about stopping some of this stuff? So we seem to kind of be in that situation again. Anyway, so what we're doing today, normally I do the direct messages Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. We did Monday this week as well. And I sense for the foreseeable future, we may be shifting to five days a week because I know that a little bit of sanity is needed these days. I don't know by me doing more shows if that provides my team with a little more sanity.

That's a pretty big, but we'll deal with that internally. We have a system and a process from that sort of thing. Anyway, I want to do a live Q&A today. So we've already got about 30, 40 questions from Ruben Report.

.com members. If you want to jump on the Ruben Report community right now, you can still submit questions and they can get them to me while we're here. I'm going to try to plow through as many as possible and not be too winded. Obviously, there's a lot about the election. But I do want to do two quick things before we start because there were two videos that I saw this morning.

That I was just like, all right, these are the types of things that people need to see to sort of show you the media level of crazy and then the political level of crazy. Oh, and by the way, guys, I'm wearing a flannel again today. It's Friday. And you know, when I wore a flannel the other day when we did that impromptu thing and I had my cap on and everything. People were people were very excited. They loved it. They loved lumberjack Dave. A lot of people wanted me to grow out the beard a little bit more, but they loved the flannel day. But it's a little cool here in LA. And I thought, you know what Dave? That's I say to myself Dave. What do you think? I'm going to do a live Q&A. I'm going to do a live Q&A. I'm going to do a live Q&A. I'm going to do a live Q&A. I'm going to do a live Q&A. I'm

going to do a live Q&A. What are you going to do? You're going to give the people what they want. So here you go. It's flannel day again. Okay. So this first video, this is CNN's Don Lemon. And he was talking to Chris Cuomo, who's just the worst. It's hard to figure out who's the worst at CNN. But I've done the math. We we charted it all out a squared plus B squared equals CNN is stupid. And I would say Cuomo is the worst. But lemon lemon is pretty close. And this one's a little personal for me.

But let's take a look. This is Don Lemon talking to Chris Cuomo about why he's got to get rid of friends who are those nasty Trump supporters. Look at what's happening to them. We have to help them. They're all getting killed by this. Now it's happening here. It's happening here right now at his own damn rally. You know what the sad thing is. And I'll be honest with you. I have many people who I love in my life. And I come from a red state have lived in several red states. There are a lot of friends who I had to really get rid of because they

are so nonsensical when it comes to this issue. They have the whole every single talking point that they hear on state TV and that they hear from this president. They repeat it and they are blinded by it. And I just can when I sit to you the other night, there's no way they can't believe it. You know, I was just goosing you in a way right. You know what they say. I was, you know, um, breaking your you know, you know, it works. I'm not like that'll be all over. So here's the thing. I had to get rid of them because they are too far away.

They are gone. I try and I try and I try. They'll say something really stupid. And then I'll show them the science and I'll give them and the information. And they still repeat those talking points. And all the while the state was a hot spot. Many if you look at the information that we put up last night that came up yesterday showed you how the red states have now taken over where the blue states where people came in because there are bigger cities and there's more transmission. Obviously where where there are where people are closer together. And so now the red states are the problem.

I just I have to get rid of a lot of people in my life because sometimes you just have to let them go. I think that they have to hit rock bottom like an addict, right. And they have to want to get help. They have to want to know the truth. They have to want to live in reality. They have to want to be responsible not only for other people's lives, but for their lives. So you know what I've had it's so sad. And I don't know if after this I will ever be able to go back and be friends with those people because at a certain point you just say they're too far gone. And I got to let them go. And if they're willing to come back. And if they're

willing to live in reality, then I will welcome them with open arms. But I can't do it. I can't do it anymore. All right. So first off, I apologize for subjecting you to two minutes of CNN. So, you know, that one, it's on me folks. I apologize for that. There's a lot there. First off, he referred to state TV, the implication that you're getting a lot of stuff that's pro-Trump from state TV. I don't know what could possibly be closer to state TV.

Then CNN. But, all right, let's put that aside because that's obviously not what this is really about. This idea of dropping friends, that you have to drop friends over politics. He says specifically that he got rid of a lot of people. They have to hit rock bottom like an attic. Now, I've talked about this a lot. And it's in my book, of course, that you should actually do everything possible in your life.

And everything that is manageable without selling yourself out to make sure that you don't lose friends over politics. But what Don just showed there is what is so consistent with the lefty thinking, which is, if you're not with me, you're against me and that you're somehow an addict and you're crazy and you have to hit rock bottom and you're awful and all of those things. You're deplorable.

And that is very much a difference of what I would say is the modern lefty mind than the modern mind of someone on the right, the righty mind, let's say.

And the reason for that is that people on the right generally don't think that politics is the end all, be all of everything and that what you, every little political decision you make is going to kill you or kill someone else or something like that. And this is seriously dangerous. By the way, these are the very people. I mean, Cuomo and Lemon and these lefties. These are people who would say that they're the tolerant ones.

But in essence, what he's saying there is he's the least tolerant person, right? Like how could you be less tolerant than saying to friends, I'm not going to be friends with you anymore because of your political beliefs as opposed to saying we have differences of opinion, but perhaps I know you're a good person. That's why we were friends in the first place. And let's try to work it out. By the way, I have had many friends dropped me over the last couple of years. I've had acquaintances drop me. I've had issues with family members all because I'm just saying what I believe now for those of you guys that watch this, you know, I'm not saying anything hateful. But if

your side has run around calling everyone Nazis for five years, well, then you might start thinking that people are actual Nazis. And then you won't listen to measured people. So that's why someone like me is thought of as as too dangerous at some level, which as anyone watching this, you know that that's just complete, complete.

Complete nonsense. I will just add in one other thing here, which is that Don Lemon and I used to be friends. We were friends. So I take no great pleasure in this, but we hung out in Atlanta. We hung out in New York City. We went to bars, we went to dinner a couple times.

And then one day about two years ago or so, I just noticed he unfollowed me on Twitter. There was no, oh, Dave, I think you're getting this wrong or any private exchange of anything. I've never mentioned this publicly before. And I don't really, I don't really care. I mean, I have plenty of friends, you know what I mean?

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