One of Elon Musk's nerd army is trolling his new fans by charging $1,000 to check out a manifesto about why he joined DOGE - just to find the post is blank.
Gavin Kliger, 25, is among 6 baby-faced kids with little-to-no federal government experience handpicked by the 'First Buddy' to plant havoc in the civil service.
He was the one who sent out a company-wide email sent out to staff members at USAID informing them not to come into the agency's Washington DC head office on Monday.
Kliger sent out the guideline from a USAID email address he was offered with as part of high-level access to its systems, along with fellow DOGE nerd Luke Farritor.
While the staff were kept home, DOGE gained access to the firm's IT system, constructing security, and classified products, and started dismantling it.
Just hours before he sent out the email, Kliger made a post on his Substack page entitled: 'Why DOGE. Why I gave up a seven-figure wage to conserve America.'
Unlike the rest of his Substack, the post was 'subscriber only' with a $1,000-a-month cost - or $10,000 for a whole year - to access a single word of it.
However, those who wondered sufficient to cough up the remarkable fee found there wasn't even that - the post was entirely blank.
Gavin Kliger, 25, is one of six baby-faced young boys with little-to-no federal government experience handpicked by Elon Musk to plant havoc in the civil service
Kliger made a post on his Substack page titled: 'Why DOGE. Why I gave up a seven-figure wage to save America'. Despite a $1,000 paywall, it is totally empty
'Poetically blank, please reassess your life options,' one talk about the post read.
Kliger advanced his fancy trolling with a bizarre voicemail greeting that pointed anybody who called his authorized contact number to the post.
'I just composed a gorgeous Substack on this, the Weekly Byte, wikitravel.org if you just go there, it's behind the paywall, but I think it will answer that concern for you ... it's quite great,' he said.
The one-minute welcoming was a lengthened variation of the prank where the owner of the phone pretends to answer, but it is in fact tape-recorded.
Kliger first pretended he was driving through a tunnel and having trouble hearing the call, then eventually exclaiming, 'They said what? No, no, I don't think that's right.'
The recorded message then made its pitch for the caller to read his Substack.
Despite its name, the Substack was not upgraded weekly, and just has 2 other posts - both of which are free to read.
Despite its name, Kliger's Substack was not updated weekly, and only has three posts
Unlike the rest of his Substack, the post was 'subscriber just' with a $1,000-a-month fee - or $10,000 for an entire year - to access a single word of it
They are both strident defenses of Donald Trump's most questionable cabinet elections - Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth.
Gaetz was nominated for attorney-general however withdrew after a damning House report discovered he paid for sex with 17-year-old lady and many other misconducts.
Kliger's post entitled 'The Curious Case of Matt Gaetz: How the Deep State Destroys Its Enemies' depicted Gaetz as an innocent victim who was 'framed'.
His other post, 'Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense: The Warrior Washington Fears', was a passionate defense of the former Fox News host's election filled with frequent Trump-ally talking points.
Hegseth was narrowly confirmed by the Senate in spite of his history of alcohol abuse and claims of sexual assault and harassment.
Kliger's claim that he left a 'seven-figure job' to sign up with DOGE is likewise dubious as his personal sector work history didn't consist of such a role.
His newest task, according to his LinkedIn, was as a 'senior software engineer' at Databricks, a cloud computing firm in San Francisco, from May 2020 to last month.
Salaries for that position at Databricks range from $102,000 to $308,000 a year according to Certainly, while Glassdoor puts the top end at $321,000, including perk.
Kliger was the one who sent out a company-wide email sent out to staff members at USAID informing them not to come into the firm's Washington DC head office on Monday
The Berkeley graduate reportedly advised all staff members at the agency not to return to Washington headquarters on Monday
Kliger graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2020 and interned at Twitter in 2019 - well before Musk's takeover in 2022.
Musk last month appointed him a special consultant to the director for details innovation at the Office of Personnel Management, where various other Musk lackeys were set up.
The Tesla owner has essentially taken control of the OPM, together with the General Services Administration, through his leadership of DOGE.
Kliger's now-deleted Github from his time at Berkeley claims he is an Eagle Scout, National Merit Scholar, National AP Scholar, a black belt first dan in Taekwondo, and an accomplished pianist.
'I want to do work that will influence the future,' it checked out.
'Whether that indicates establishing software, researching system implementation, or working in some other sphere, I understand that I will contribute insight and creativity towards fulfilling the difficulties I deal with.
'In my extra time, I enjoy playing the piano and clarinet and attending music shows at Berkeley. One of my preferred leisure activities is playing online blitz chess.'
Kliger's daddy, Larry Kliger, is president of Lawrence Allen & Associates, an industrial realty company.
Musk last month designated Kliger an unique consultant to the director for details technology at the Office of Personnel Management, where many other Musk lackeys were set up
Who are Musk's other geeks?
Musk enlisted a performers of boys aged 19 to 25 - 3 of whom are thought to still remain in college - to fill high-powered engineering functions and cut costs.
At simply 19, Edward Coristine is the youngest of the fresh-faced bunch taking on corporate America and longstanding federal government organizations.
According to WIRED, he's been dubbed an 'specialist' in his field, and specifics about his function aren't yet clear.
Akash Bobba, 21, setiathome.berkeley.edu Ethan Shaotran, 22, and Luke Farritor, 23, together with Coristine, have reportedly been approved A-suite level clearance for their work, indicating they can work out of the company's leading flooring with access to all physical spaces and IT systems.
Musk's DOGE has actually been quickly growing in power and broadening its remit, most just recently protecting clearance to access to restricted parts of the General Services Administration structures and IT systems.
These systems keep delicate information including social security numbers, addresses and contact details.
Elon Musk got a performers of young guys aged 19 to 25 - 3 of whom are believed to still remain in college - to fill high-powered engineering functions and cut expenses
Finally, Gautier Cole Killian has actually been named for his role with DOGE, which is reportedly on a 'volunteer' basis at this phase.
After widespread criticism about the males's youth, Musk released a declaration about the consultations.
'Time to confess: Media reports saying that DOGE has a few of world's best software application engineers remain in reality true,' Musk wrote on X.
Luke Farritor, 23
Luke Farritor has a known link to Musk currently, having interned for SpaceX prior to landing his brand-new gig.
Farritor, left of the University of Nebraska in order to start working for Nat Friedman, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur behind GitHub.
Friedman explained Farritor as 'a nationwide treasure' after his consultation with DOGE was revealed.
He won part of a $700,000 prize in 2024 after using AI innovation to assist decipher a 2,000 years of age file - part of the Vesuvius scrolls from Pompeii - which scientists had actually been attempting, and failing, to fix for centuries.
The charred scroll was thought burnt beyond acknowledgment.
Luke Farritor has a recognized link to Musk already, having actually interned for SpaceX prior to landing his brand-new gig
Edward Coristine, 19
The youngest of Musk's elite team is just 19 and a trainee at Northeastern University in Boston.
Coristine supposedly interned at Musk's Neuralink for biolink.palcurr.com 3 months last summer season, after finishing high school.
Little is understood about Coristine's role at DOGE, nevertheless he is noted as an 'professional.'
sources declaring Coristine has been carrying out calls with staff in the department and making them 'review code they had actually written and validate their tasks.'
Employees were presumably confused by his inclusion in the conferences, and later on revealed concerns that they were not appropriately informed on his identity or role, even throughout the call.
Coristine's father, Charles, is the president of popcorn empire, LesserEvil. Coristine once worked as an employee for the brand name.
Up up until just recently, Coristine apparently used a social media manage called '@EdwardBigBaller.'
The youngest of Musk's elite squad is just 19 and a trainee at Northeastern University in Boston
Akash Bobba, 21
Bobba is another 'specialist' within the department still studying at the University of California, Berkeley.
According to a former LinkedIn account, which has actually considering that been erased, Bobba was a financial investment engineering intern at a hedge fund.
He had also formerly interned for Meta and Palantir - who was founded by 2016 MAGA donor, Peter Thiel.
Just six years ago, Bobba was the organizer behind the Princeton Junction, New Jersey, regional model United Nations. His dad is a scholastic in computer system science.
Bobba spoke at his graduation event from West Windsor-Plainsboro South High School in July 2021, informing his schoolmates to 'value the intricacy in life'.
" We reside in an age where simpleness reigns supreme, where 30-second TikToks and 280-character tweets pertain to define our identities,' he said.
'This increasing determination to simplify even the most complicated narratives into marvelous tidbits, perpetuates misinformation and while doing so divides the neighborhoods, households, and relationships we treasure.
'What's the solution, you might ask? Seek pain.'
Bobba is another 'specialist' within the department still studying at the University of California, Berkeley
Ethan Shaotran, 22
Shaortran founded Energize AI - a scheduling assistant for experts. The startup earned a $100,000 grant from OpenAI in 2023.
The 22-year-old said in September he was a senior at Harvard University, and was working in the school's computing lab on self-governing cars.
Musk is famously trying to develop self-driving cars at his Tesla headquarters.
Shaortran belongs to the Harvard Mountaineering Club and worked as a scuba divemaster in Hawaii over a gap year.
He likewise has a link to Musk, having taken part in his xAI 'hackathon'. He and his team were runner ups after they utilized xAI's Grok to develop possible actions from X followers to a theoretical question.
Shaortran established Energize AI - a scheduling assistant for specialists. The start-up earned a $100,000 grant from OpenAI in 2023
Gautier Cole Killian, 24
Killian was working as an engineer at Jump Trading, which concentrates on high-frequency monetary trades and algorithms.
Now, he is reportedly working as a 'volunteer' with DOGE, although in what capability remains uncertain.
The 24-year-old finished McGill University.
Killian was working as an engineer at Jump Trading, which focuses on high-frequency financial trades and algorithms
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Musk's DOGE boasts sweeping power
Musk is leading a remarkable civilian review of the federal government with Trump's contract.
'It became evident that it's not an apple with a worm it in,' Musk said in a live session on X Spaces early Monday.
'What we have is just a ball of worms. You have actually got to generally eliminate the entire thing. It's beyond repair.'
Musk just recently hinted he was likewise the mastermind behind Trump's decision to purge federal workers by posting a symbolic picture on X harkening back to his infamous Twitter clean.
At the time, he sent out a letter to personnel titled: 'A Fork in the Road.' The same title was used in Trump's recent email proposing generous lay-off packages
Musk later on shared on X that he commissioned an art work of a huge fork standing in the road, showing it was all connected.
Musk does not hold chosen office, but on Monday was officially selected a 'unique federal government worker' by the White House.
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