@flexghost i’d never encountered WT prior to like 2017, & its branding momentarily fooled me a couple times (not into sharing anything, only mistaking it for a real news org for a minute); which made me permanently annoyed by it.

when i found out it was started by the mooneys, nothing ever made more sense.

@flexghost definitely - around the same time, one of the main local alt right fascist mover-shakers, Joey Gibson (“patriot prayer” founder), had begun speaking at the mooneys’ “rod of iron” festival events.