'Comically Minimal Ego-Stroking': Inside The Bumble Takedown Of A Violent Capitol Rioter

[Nevilledog]

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New piece by @ryanjreilly about amateur honeypotting January 6th participants.

'Comically Minimal Ego-Stroking': Inside The Bumble Takedown Of A Violent Capitol Rioter
Andrew Taake was arrested for pepper-spraying and attacking police officers with a whip at the U.S. Capitol. Here's how a Bumble dating app user reeled h...
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1:46 PM · Jul 29, 2021

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/capitol-attack-bumble-takedown-jan-6-andrew-taake_n_6101b17ce4b00fa7af7ea007

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Claire estimates she chatted with about a dozen conservatives who attended Trump’s Jan. 6 rally. With the kind of “comically minimal ego-stroking” she used with Andrew, she says, she got three of them to admit they were unlawfully present on the grounds of the Capitol. She sent all three, including Andrew, to the FBI.

“I basically just asked, ‘Wow, crazy, tell me more’ on repeat until they gave me enough,” she said. “One of my friends was like, ’You basically got all these confessions just being, like, ‘Haha! Then what?’”

About three months after the Capitol attack, an FBI special agent from Texas got in touch with Claire. The female special agent (“Let the women do the work,” Claire joked) asked a bunch of questions that made it evident they were in somewhat new territory: Not many FBI cases involve dating app stings. “Clearly, it’s not a common scenario,” Claire said.

More than six months after Jan. 6, Claire was scrolling through Instagram over the weekend when she saw a headline: “Capitol attack suspect turned in by Bumble match.” The post included a familiar name: Andrew Taake. He’d been arrested in Houston on Friday, July 23.

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[Botany]

1. Sweet

Andrew Taake

[Nevilledog]

2. He probably didn't want to go to jail still a virgin.

[Botany]

4. "Capitol rioter who used whip on cops is turned in to FBI by woman he matched with on dating app."*

He has dumb ass written all over his face during the riot/attempted coup. Bet ya he thought he
was a patriot fighting for "free-dumbs and liberty." Christ I bet you he works a labor job and listens
to Fox/Hannity/other hate talk all the time w/out having a clue that he was being lied to.


* https://deadstate.org/capitol-rioter-who-used-metal-whip-on-cops-is-turned-in-to-fbi-by-woman-he-matched-with-on-dating-app/

[mopinko]

12. not funny.

[Maraya1969]

17. You're right, I should not wish violence on anyone. Deleted.

[mopinko]

22. ty. i wish it was an explicit rule.

i get it, it's hard not to wish the worst on these people, but...

[mopinko]

13. not funny.

[Nevilledog]

15. Why would him hitting a dating app to get laid be bad?

[leftieNanner]

16. I think the reference was to

prison rape.

And that's bad.

[Nevilledog]

19. That wasn't in my post.

[leftieNanner]

21. No it wasn't

Someone else on the thread made that remark. I think the response was misplaced.

[mopinko]

24. nope.

[swimboy]

20. Not funny because

Mentioning losing virginity with going to jail has the watermarks of a prison rape reference, intended or not

[mopinko]

23. yup. it is.

i wish it was an explicit rule.
back in the day, it was.

[RVN VET71]

26. A violent bastard, this Bumble Boy

He may do serious time if the claims he made and the apparent video evidence of his assaults on police officers convince a jury.

[Hekate]

3. Very amusing!

[Bristlecone]

5. They are easy marks. That's exactly why they think TFG

Loves America and follow him blindly as he fleeces them via credit card auto pay. Suckers pure and simple.

[SheltieLover]

6. Covidiot, no doubt!

[Maraya1969]

7. Can you imagine what some smart FBI undercover women could get out of

going on dates with the incels? All they'd have is let them hold her hand and they'd give her the keys to the kingdom. I think those guys would tell them every damning thing about his Nazi buddies for a couple feigned complements.

[RVN VET71]

27. I dunno about that. These dweebs, I think, are psychologically twisted wannabe rapists.

These aren’t guys moaning about not getting dates. They’re nasty little sadists who want to grab pu**y, like their fat slob of a “hero”, Loser-45. I think the core of Intel fantasy is revenge, and their sick dreams are of revenge sex or murder. I don’t think they want warmth and intimacy.

[Brother Mythos]

9. It appears that 'honeytrapping' is not always a bad thing.

[Rebl2]

10. You might

say they got stung by bumble😉

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Not the brightest people

[bringthePaine]

14. simply genius - hysterical kudos!

[monkeyman1]

18. probably couldn't get laid on dollar day in a whore house !!

[calimary]

25. I read this to my husband. We both loved it!

[yonder]

28. I must be old but I think of something way different when I read 'honeypot'.

And it starts with a 5 gallon bucket.

[Lucky Luciano]

31. It's also used in computer security.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

29. This is a phenomenal story thank you so much Nevilledog! nt

[Justice matters.]

30. Let's hope the FBI charges that terrorist with...

charges of Terrorism.

Take That Taake to Maximum Security for YEARS.

[GulfCoast66]

32. Catfishing for the cause!