QAnon, Oliver Stone, John Kasich, Rage Moms – Deadline

After the week that was – when a QAnon backer won a Congressional primary and President Donald Trump hugged the fringe group in a White House briefing, Bill Maher felt it was time that America is learning the true identity of the dark figure behind it all.

“It makes perfect sense that I – libertine, atheist, smoking pot Trump and hating Bill Maher – am Q,” the Real time said. “I am, what I revealed on this show two years ago.” He then cut a quick clip from That Night and came back, bathed in blue light and sitting in front of a laptop, and said it was true because, as serious followers know, “It makes the least sense. . … Suppose the opposite of the opposite of what you know this is not true. Then and only then do you think like a real QAnon.

Watch the segment on the group who believe “Q” and Trump are fighting an international cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophile elites who devour the babies above.

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Maher also said during his monologue that Real time “Will return to the studio next week” for the first time since March 13. He’s been doing home shows with laughs and remote interviews since April 3rd.

His special guest was maverick filmmaker Oliver Stone. Three-time Oscar winner, who Maher called “one of my favorite directors,” talks about his new memoir Chasing the Light, and longtime acquaintances discussed the Hollywood era.

“Here is my question for you: which movie could you not get the green light for today?” Reacting with a chuckle, Stone said, “I think it’s very difficult to shoot a movie today. I think the subject has to be kosher, politically correct. My films were always crude and they were always personal points of view. And, you know, there was enough controversy. So I don’t think I would do very well today.

Maher also said he was worried about “what movies are do not being done today. … It seems from what you are saying that we are missing something. Because we’re not going to know which movies aren’t made because we don’t see them. What movies would do you do today if you could – if somebody gave you an unlimited budget and said… “are you going to make it”? “

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The filmmaker said he “had had so many movies that went through the pipeline that weren’t made – almost 10 years of my life wasted.” Stone said he spent a lot of time working on the movie My Lai Massacre Pinkville in 2007. “We almost made it,” he says. “It was canceled because the financier was scared.” He also noted that he worked on a Martin Luther King film, MLK, “Twice”, and they both weren’t successful because, again, it was controversial “because the movie” also showed his sexy side, his love of women. And it sparked a fury. He also noted that, since September 11, “making a film critical of the US military is prohibited.”

In his monologue before Stone’s interview, Maher yawned about this week’s Democratic National Convention. “Have you ever logged into the Jerry Lewis telethon at 2 a.m.?” he asked with a smirk. He also spoke about Dem’s newly created presidential candidate Joe Biden and his “rap name: the Fresh Prince of Smell Hair”.

Mocking the meeting between former veep and pop star Cardi B. earlier this week, Maher noted, “It was a really nice interview, and it ended well when Cardi said, ‘C is why I will vote for you. And Joe said, ‘and that’s why I chose you as my running mate. “

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Guests at Maher’s interview tonight also included Ohio Governor John Kasich, a Republican who spoke on Night 1 of the Democratic National Convention on Monday; Rev. Dr. William Barber II, co-chair of the Campaign of the poor; and Thomas Frank, author of The People, No. A Brief History of Anti-populism. Here too did a bit of a mid-show on “a new voting demographic out there that they call Rage Moms.” Watch his monologue and Kasich’s interview below.