Maher Declares GOP the ‘Alex Jones Party’: Republicans Discovered They ‘Can Just Make Sh*t Up’

Before closing his show Friday night, Bill Maher blasted the GOP embracing “conspiracy theories.”

Maher began by explaining how conspiracy theories used to be about aliens, Hitler escaping to Argentina, and Elvis still being alive, but now they’re the “ideology of the Republican party.”

“Conspiracy theorists used to be ‘crazy,’ now they’re called ‘Senator,'” Maher said. “It used to be an unwritten rule of both parties that you can’t just make sh*t up, the old ‘You’re entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts’ thing, but that was before Republicans discovered, ‘Yes, yes you can just make sh*t up.'”

The Real Time host said he “never liked” Rush Limbaugh, but he’d take “90s-era dittoheads” like him because it turned out that he was a “gateway drug” which led to “stronger” drugs like Glenn Beck and Alex Jones.

“And now, Republicans, you’re the Alex Jones party,” Maher continued. “There is literally nothing too stupid or too conspiratorial that you will not swallow. Hillary running a child sex ring out of a pizza parlor, sounds right. Obama‘s birth certificate- fake! Jade Helm? Absolutely… The crazier it gets, the more they like it. That’s their jam! They believe anything! So we could stop sending reporters to diners now to figure them out. They’re not there for the breakfast, they literally think there are clouds in their coffee.”

Maher insisted that “actual Republicans” like George H.W. Bush “are gone” and that Alex Jones and President Trump are “soulmates.”

He wrapped up the show by urging more “sane people” to vote in every election.

Watch the clip above, via HBO.