UPDATE, with video “I am Q” Bill Maher revealed during his New Rules segment in which he lampooned Trump supporters latest conspiracy theory, QAnon.

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Maher’s final New Rule for the night: “If Trump supporters don’t want us to call them stupid they have to stop coming up with things like Q.”

“Just a few months ago…I was talking about how Republicans are now the Conspiracy Party and that there is nothing so ridiculous they won’t swallow: birth certificate, Chemtrail, Jade Helm, Lizard People, and now we have Q.”

Q, the leader of the QAnon conspiracy theory, is an unidentified person with super-high ‘Q’ level security clearance, “so he knows all the shit that goes on in the Deep State,” Maher giggled. “Namely that our government is riddled with a rogue criminal element that is interested in evil in general, but their specialty is pedophilia.”

“And why not?” Maher asked, nothing almost half of Trump voters already believed Hillary Clinton ran a child sex ring out of a pizza parlor. Turns out, that just the tip of the iceberg. Almost every well-known person is a pedophile to QAnon believers, Maher noted, including Tom Hanks, Stephen Spielberg – and every single POTUS since Ronald Reagan. Except Donald Trump. In QAnon, “Trump is a superhero whose whole life has been a cover so he can strike back against the pedophile rings,” Maher said. Part of his cover involved saying that were Ivanka Trump not his daughter, perhaps he would be dating her, and describing her “best body.”

“And then it starts to get weird,” Maher described, getting a big laugh from his audience.

Trump rallies these days are full of people holding up Q signs and defending QAnon’s positions.

“Donald Trump was just posing as a disgusting pervert the last half century to gain credibility so he can go after perverts now,” Maher explained.

In Q World, the FBI are the traitors, the real patriots are the Russians, Trump is clean and Robert Mueller is dirty. “The only thing that would make more sense,” Maher said, “would be finding out that a Trump loathing conservative baiter like me is Q. Which is why it is true. I am Q. I am revealing it now.

“My entire life has been a sham that gave me the perfect cover to be your source for what is really happening in America. The drugs, the atheism, the stuff at the Playboy Mansion – I did that to throw you off the scent…The pot I smoke is oregano, and the jokes in my monologues are actually coded messages, except for the ones about Chris Christie being fat. Those I just like to tell.”

“I, Q, need your help to make America great again…Keep believing everything Trump tells you. And, above all, on Tuesday, November 6, stay at home. Do not leave your house on November 6. Better yet, get in the trunk of your car and don’t leave it for whatever reason.
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QAnon believers react to Bill Maher’s monologue on the conspiracy theory
“It’s amazing how well-crafted their lies are,” one Reddit user said of Maher’s monologue

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Taylor Link
August 4, 2018 5:07pm (UTC)

HBO's "Real Time" returned Friday night after a month hiatus. Host Bill Maher came back from vacation to find the country in bigger disarray than he could have imagined.

One new phenomenon that popped up last week was the emergence of QAnon in the national discourse. QAnon is a running conspiracy theory made popular by an anonymous online figure named Q. According to The Daily Beast, Q began posting on anonymous internet forums 4Chan and 8Chan in late 2017. The person or group behind the Q persona claim to have top-level security clearance in the federal government. Q has surfaced, supposedly, to whistleblow a monstrous worldwide criminal conspiracy that portrays high-profile Democrats as pedophiles and President Donald Trump the liberator of vulnerable children.

To no surprise, Trump fans latched onto the conspiracy and have used the narrative to justify their distrust in the media. People who've attended Trump's recent rallies have shown up with signs and t-shirts that promote Q and "The Great Awakening," a nod to the rising awareness of pedophile rings orchestrated by Hollywood celebrities.

Maher attempted to explain all this to his studio audience in Los Angeles on Friday.

“This is a big movement on the right. See, we don’t hear about these things because we’re not crazy,” Maher said near the end of his monologue. “Q is a person—a member of the ‘deep state,’ way high up in the ‘deep state’—but now he’s turning on them, and he’s revealing that the world is run by a giant pedophile ring. Really. Every president since Reagan has been part of it."

"You know who’s a pedophile? Tom Hanks. Steven Spielberg," Maher revealed. "And who’s gonna stop this? Trump. Because who’s more qualified to stop pedophilia than the creep who used to walk in on Miss Teen USA pageants?”

"He wasn't being a creep. He was looking for pedophiles," Maher joked.

Maher's reference to QAnon wasn't lost on the people who believe in the conspiracy. The Reddit channel r/greatawakening shared the video of Maher's monologue and subsequently chastised his ignorance on the subject.

"This is why it's really hard to feel sympathy for the sheep who follow the media/Hollywood," one reddit user wrote. "How can they laugh at this shit? What the fuck is wrong with them? This makes me not want to console them at all when the truth comes out but rub it in their faces."

"It's amazing how well-crafted their lies are," another reddit user said. "People buy into this shit and we have to fight even harder because people are too stupid to actually look into and understand things for themselves. How frustrating."

You can watch Maher's Friday monologue below: