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3:59Now PlayingA prominent Q personality has died from COVID-19, but he continued to deny that the disease was real even as he succumbed to it. His followers now believe that he was murdered by the doctors in order to make Florida governor Ron DeSantis look bad. This might be the proof we need to finally realize that there is just no way to reach some of these people, and it might not even be worth it to waste our time on them. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.
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Another anti mask, anti-vax Republican has died from COVID. This time, it was 69 year old Robert Steele, who also happens to be a member of the Q people. But this one's interesting. Usually when I talk about these stories, it's because the person had a change of heart on their death bed. Oh, why didn't I get the vaccine? Why didn't I take care of myself? Not Mr. Steele. Oh, no. Mr. Steele continued to deny that COVID was real all the way till he died. Like he never had this repentance. He's dying because his lungs, as he said, aren't functioning and he still straight up said, COVID wasn't real. Let me read you, this is what he actually posted on social media on August 17th, almost two weeks before he died. Here it is. With love to all of you, I survived. Putting the cart before the horse there a little bit. I went in at 77 oxygenation. I'm up to 94. I will not take the vaccination, though I did test positive for whatever they're calling COVID today. But the bottom line is that my lungs are not functioning. The good news is that I will survive with a few days off. I should be back up and at least functional soon. Uh, this has been a near-death experience.
Yeah. Um, it ended up being a death experience for you and you still refused to accept the reality of it all the way through to the end. Now here's where this story gets a little screwier. Now, Mr. Steele has appeared on Alex Jones' program in the past. He was interviewed for the Vice news Q documentary thing they put together and he claimed to the people producing that documentary that he was the first person to come out and, uh, what is it, first person to call COVID a hoax. And now he's dead from it, like so many others before him. And again, it's about to get even weirder because his followers, those Q-tip people, um, they don't think he died of COVID. They're actively out there right now saying that he was not killed from COVID. He was murdered by the doctors to make Florida governor Ron DeSantis look bad. That's the narrative they've already jumped on. The dude had COVID, had a positive diagnosis, died in the same way that so many other COVID patients have and his followers just like him refuse to believe the disease is real.
And instead are saying that the doctors killed him as revenge against Ron DeSantis. Um, I often say in the, in these segments, you know, I, I take no joy in reporting these, uh, I've said recently I've been running out of sympathy. I have no sympathy whatsoever for Mr. Steele. Like, there is not a single part of me that feels bad while I'm going through this story. Is that terrible? Does it, does that make me a bad person? Because I feel like I should feel at least a little bad about him, but this guy and his followers still refuse to acknowledge reality as reality was literally killing him. So how do you rationalize with these people? How do you talk to these people? I think at this point, you don't. I, I think some of these people are too far gone down to that Q conspiracy hole, that there is no redemption for them. Even when their own people are dropping dead from COVID, they still won't accept that reality when it smacks them in the face.
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