Even in Silicon Valley, the home of science, technology, and reason, we have our share of people infected by right wing conspiracies. For example, we have this tweet thread between Ron Cohen, candidate for US Congress 17th district and Glen The Plumber.
Jennifer Wadsworth of San Jose Inside dug even deeper into Ron’s twitter musings.
The GOP D-17 contender went on to suggest that Barack Obama is secretly gay and that Sasha and Malia had surrogate parents because of Michelle’s inability to conceive as a biological male. Basically, the same wackadoodle plots hawked by Twitter outcast and snake-oil salesman Alex Jones.
“To me, it is a theory, because I will never have a DNA test to prove it,” Cohen tweeted along with side-by-side photos of the couple he believes to be the birth parents. “But to my eyes, it is highly, highly probable.”
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In another Twitter post, the congressional hopeful says HUD Secretary Ben Carson’s comments about the Kavanagh allegations being part of a “centuries-old socialist plot” would be correct if Ford’s claims turn out to be false.
We contacted Glen The Plumber for comment on Ron Cohen and his theories. His reply, “Interesting” was well worth our effort.