Summary

Gavin Kliger, a 25-year-old DOGE goon, allegedly screamed at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) employees during a 36-hour shift to expedite layoffs of 90% of staff.

A court paused the firings, citing violations of an earlier order requiring individual assessments before terminations. Kliger told staffers to ignore the court-ordered individual-by-individual assessment requirement.

Kliger is a 25-year-old “internet edgelord” who claims to have ditched seven figures in Silicon Valley to work at DOGE. He is a 2020 Berkeley graduate and “has boosted white supremacists and misogynists online,” Reuters reported.

Kliger has already overseen 1,500–1,700 layoffs. Only three senior staff remain, raising concerns about CFPB’s ability to fulfill legal duties.

  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Doge just keeps lining up more and more future lawsuit payouts that the government will have to pay when the next president takes office. Every penny saved will cost thousands in lawyers fees and payouts. If not tens or hundreds of thousands.

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    Wait… Reuters called this dude an “edgelord”?

    I never thought I could like them more, but here we are.

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    Oh no wonder these brats are acting like this… you give a 25-year-old seven figures and… there you go. It’s like giving a five-year-old fucking sugar. Smack the goddamn out of him and send to his room with no supper.

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      He never got seven figures. He claimed he would have made that in silicon valley had he not joined doge. Based on his behavior I doubt that

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    Normally I’d joke about how “We know where they sleep” but this goon doesn’t seem to do much of that. I still hope someone beats the shit out of him, and the rest of the conservatives.

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      You also saw the late-January Redditor spreadsheet listing his personal cell phone number, parents’ home address, and his personal email address? I can’t believe that dude was dumb enough to leave all that information casually lying around on the world wide web for just anyone to find through public search channels.

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        It starts with…

        /One,/

        /one thing, I don’t know why It doesn’t even/matter how hard you/try Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme/

        /to explain in due time All I/know, time is a valuable thing/Watch it fly by as the/

        / /pendulum swings Watch it count down/to the end of the/day, the clock ticks/

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    A 25- year old nothing has no idea what a livelihood is. He’s never had to do the shit a real man or woman has to do to provide.

    Daddy’s boy needs to learn his place. Stay in your lane rich boy and shut up.

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    He should go back to his 7 figure job and marry his Canadian girlfriend.

    Problem is not this idiot, the problem is who enabled him

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    the word goon has been ruined, my mind conflated ‘goon’ with ‘gooner’ and I can’t salvage it

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      Then the jaw breaker might get his citizenship revoked and be sent to CECOT or Gitmo. Might be worth it, though.

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        Better make sure his jar is broken through the back of his head so that it was worth it then. A death sentence is a death sentence, and it would be a shame if simple assault was the highest crime.

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        “He tripped and fell down 35 flights of stairs. It was a tragedy.” “The building is only 12 stories tall.” “Yeah, he had to be carried back up a couple of times.”

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          “We told him to lie still, and wait for the ambulance, but he kept coming back up!”

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    36-hour shift

    Our government is being dismantled by children on fucking amphetamines.

    I’m usually against it for office jobs, but let’s drug test these idiots.

    What am I saying, if they don’t already have an rx, I’m sure Elon could easily facilitate it.

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      The previous Trump admin pharmqcy broke records for how much drugs were being dispensed. So probably breaking that record again.

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      I don’t think it’s all just drugs doing it and I don’t want to shift the blame off of him. I think him and the whole administration are just b̲a̲d̲ people, who may be augmented by illicitly obtained substances.

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      Yeah. No sane adult wants to work 36-hours. This is just pure insanity. I wouldn’t ever work a shift like that. Basically only if the world was literally ending—we are literally being invaded right now. Otherwise, we can handle it on Monday.

      The Trump White House was a pill factory last time (there’s public records). So, it’s probably even more ramped up now.

      Don’t you love that they are trying to keep highly qualified disabled ADHD people like me out of the work force but at the same time abuse the medicine we need? Fucking pricks.

      I wouldn’t be shocked if it was just straight cocaine. 36-hours is beyond. Feels way more cocaine driven— especially the anger/irritability.

      He speaks like someone who has never been smacked in the fucking mouth. That’s ok we have the remedy.

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        Basically only if the world was literally ending—we are literally being invaded right now.

        Don’t keep working if this happens, go the fuck home right away. If the world is ending your job doesn’t matter anymore, your safety is more important. This system doesn’t give a single fuck about you, and never has, you don’t owe it your undying loyalty.

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        I can really only do several hours of real actual cognitive work a day.

        After 6 hours the likelihood that i’ll make a mistake or waste hours of time increases dramatically.

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      Have you tried buying Adderall, or any prescription amphetamine, legit from a pharmacy?

      Elon may be able to facilitate it, but I doubt even he could effectuate it.

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        He’s the wealthiest man in the world, he can have anything he wants. He could simply buy a pharmaceutical factory, if he wanted it bad enough.

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        have you tried buying them not from a pharmacy? it’s easy af and not even expensive… the wealthiest man in the world, or even mr “gave up 7 figures in silicon valley” can get whatever they like