Thread by @TheSadPingu

This is the story of Jackson Hinkle
The story of how a good boy wanted to do decent things.... but he wanted attention more. He wanted fame and power...
So he made a deal with evil itself to become what he is today, a sad sad propagandist with no soul left, but lots of power

This is going to be a long thread, but there are three key points
1) How Russian propaganda entangles those far away from the Kremlin
2) How propagandists sell their souls, and how Kremlin strategy has enabled them
3) How to shame Hinkle for betraying his spoilt upbringing

First, lets start in the Soviet Union's KGB office.

International propaganda had a very simple process. Find a dedicated ideologue, contact via a handler (never the station's agent), inflate their ego until they want to start a newspaper...

https://t.co/AmWBvD4ISknytimes.com/1981/07/21/opi…

These newspapers would then run in small circles, but gain popularity. They would muddy the information circle with half-truths... then when they needed the stories to become bigger, they could 'amplify' those newspapers with more funding....

theguardian.com/science/blog/2…

This strategy had variations, but it worked via recruiting useful idiots, disseminating disinformation, making people worried to respond
Propagandists' egos would be inflated, they would turn normal 'left' politics into Stalinism and cult like hate
(P. 24, SP NO.11)

Come the fall of the KGB and the Soviet Union, this strategy moved online... but many of people who were directly or indirectly influenced by hands remained. Many of them float around here now.

Larouche had his start in this era... A name to keep in mind for later

Some reading on LaRouche from different eras



https://t.co/n5kZCaocSS

https://t.co/8zKtYJSMbiwashingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nationa…
ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-…
nytimes.com/2019/02/13/obi…

Jackson Hinkle was born in San Clemente, CA, and from everything I can tell, he was quite spoilt in his life. He had a good upbringing, he was an early adopter of YouTube, he seemed to be a (slightly cringe) but normal kid

https://twitter.com/GhostOfHinkle/status/1615464085310644225?s=20

He painted, he did music, he was quite a normal kid. His track times were not great in first year (Freshman year of high school) but I will not pick on him for that

He became 'political' at some point in high school, but nothing too cringe

https://t.co/hXyw4gq1eVpasadenastarnews.com/2018/03/14/stu…

Then.... he graduates, turns 19 and decides it is time to "make a change".... To note how quick he shifted this was ONLY four years ago

He files to run for city council in San Clemente and begins a normal campaign until.... oh dear, oh god, what is that he has on?

That would be the Orange County Fire Authority gear he has on.... ostensibly the OCFA's political PAC supported him with $7000 in donations, but you are NOT supposed to use public gear to support or endorse campaigns

https://t.co/zgtN8TP3Nzvoiceofoc.org/2019/10/crimin…

It had been a year of highs for Hinkle, leading students in his high school on a march, turning into a small town icon for climate clean up, surfing with Tulsi Gabbard, falling in love with Sarah Brady
And now his campaign is under investigation

https://t.co/JSi51YjqqVweb.archive.org/web/2022091515…

Amid that there had also been run-ins with the police (juvenile records are sealed in the US) and being a generally spoilt twat.

https://t.co/ifeh5h6kr9sanclementetimes.com/hinkle-respond…

He was certainly a rebellious lefty chap, and potentially worse... he had been a notorious actor and was arrested outside Pelosi's office during a protest in 2018



https://t.co/0n5hJ0PgHO https://t.co/CiaV3SSioUjustice.gov/opa/pr/us-citi…
galsuburban.substack.com/p/who-the-f_ck…

Yet, his campaign had a more moderate approach.He had been trying to cover up more extreme positions and was still receiving support from his parents
His campaign finances are high but not outrageous with the 7k from OCFA in mind



https://t.co/dckGuN3N56san-clemente.org/home/showpubli…
san-clemente.org/departments-se…

His family and immediate father helped him with this campaign... the same father who infamously tweeted at him that he was lying. There was a split after the campaign and after his break up with Sarah Brady

Your parents do not help with a campaign Ioniv is helping with

(Thanks to @Falcone_Giovann for fourth image I was having trouble finding)

At this point, he had not done a internet wide cleanup His email he used for his campaign YouTube links to a Tumblr account among other social media(now scrubbed, but shows up in a data breach dump)

Something changed after he visited Tulsi Gabbard and began his journey into the LaRouche clique

He began pushing more cult-like positions, becoming more and more toxic

But then he lost....

ocregister.com/2019/10/22/pho…

Go back in time, not only had he surfed with Gabbard, but he was a speaker at the inaugural meeting of a Jimmy Dore backed group

This is absolutely key and is the point in which I would say he was "in"

(This also confirms his earlier arrest)

It seems his parents are rich, but I have questions how he got to D.C., got support to organise and produce a vitriolic campaign that lead to divisive San Clemente psy-ops from the right and left

https://t.co/DaTA62sB44tumblr.com/ourrevolutions…

Following the pandemic, the rest becomes history almost

Except how incredibly toxic he became. He continuously doubled down with his TV Show, but wallowed in semi-irrelevancy among a host of grifters

Then he was arrested again

He was charged in a misdemeanour. More importantly, by 2021 he was firmly in the LaRouche and Dore clubs... his ego had been inflated again and he was just waiting to be amplified

His usefulness finally came when Russia invaded Ukraine. We all know how vile he was and how vile he can be.

But how did the kid on the left become the hate fuelled adult amplified by Nicholas J. Fuentes?

Its a story the KGB is very familiar with.... /end

Post-script

To those who doubt how connected he is... Look at what @reshetz highlights

As a second point, Fuentes bumps him right when MAGA Commies needed boosting

https://twitter.com/reshetz/status/1687055997464870913