Among Elon Musk's geek army is trolling his new fans by charging $1,000 to read a manifesto about why he joined DOGE - just to discover the post is blank.
Gavin Kliger, 25, is one of six baby-faced young boys with little-to-no federal government experience handpicked by the 'First Buddy' to sow havoc in the civil service.
He was the one who sent a company-wide email sent out to employees at USAID informing them not to come into the company's Washington DC headquarters on Monday.
Kliger sent the instruction from a USAID email address he was offered with as part of top-level access to its systems, together with fellow DOGE nerd Luke Farritor.
While the staff were kept home, DOGE gained access to the firm's IT system, developing security, and classified products, and started dismantling it.
Just hours before he sent the email, Kliger made a post on his Substack page entitled: 'Why DOGE. Why I quit a seven-figure salary to save America.'
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.
However, those who were curious sufficient to spend the extraordinary charge found there wasn't even that - the post was totally blank.
Gavin Kliger, 25, is among six baby-faced kids 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 entitled: 'Why DOGE. Why I offered up a seven-figure income to save America'. Despite a $1,000 paywall, it is totally empty
'Poetically blank, please reassess your life choices,' one discuss the post read.
Kliger advanced his sophisticated trolling with a bizarre voicemail greeting that pointed anyone who called his authorized telephone number to the post.
'I just composed a gorgeous Substack on this, the Weekly Byte, if you simply go there, it's behind the paywall, koha-community.cz however I believe it will respond to that concern for you ... it's respectable,' he said.
The one-minute welcoming was an elongated version of the trick where the owner of the phone pretends to answer, however it is really recorded.
Kliger initially pretended he was driving through a tunnel and having problem hearing the call, then eventually exclaiming, 'They said what? No, no, I do not think that's right.'
The tape-recorded message then made its pitch for the caller to read his Substack.
Despite its name, the Substack was not upgraded weekly, and only has 2 other posts - both of which are free to read.
Despite its name, Kliger's Substack was not updated weekly, and just has three posts
Unlike the rest of his Substack, the post was 'customer only' with a $1,000-a-month charge - or $10,000 for a whole year - to access a single word of it
They are both strident defenses of Donald Trump's most controversial cabinet nominations - Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth.
Gaetz was nominated for attorney-general but withdrew after a damning House report found he paid for sex with 17-year-old woman and various other misconducts.
Kliger's post entitled 'The Curious Case of Matt Gaetz: users.atw.hu 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 an enthusiastic defense of the former Fox News host's nomination filled with frequent Trump-ally talking points.
Hegseth was directly confirmed by the Senate regardless of his history of alcoholic abuse and claims of sexual assault and harassment.
Kliger's claim that he left a 'seven-figure job' to sign up with DOGE is also dubious as his economic sector work history didn't consist of such a function.
His latest task, according to his LinkedIn, was as a 'senior software engineer' at Databricks, a cloud computing firm in San Francisco, vetlek.ru 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, consisting of bonus offer.
Kliger was the one who sent a company-wide email sent to employees at USAID telling them not to come into the firm's Washington DC head office on Monday
The Berkeley graduate reportedly instructed all workers at the agency not to return to Washington head office on Monday
Kliger finished from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2020 and interned at Twitter in 2019 - well before Musk's takeover in 2022.
Musk last month selected him an unique adviser to the director for details innovation at the Office of Personnel Management, where numerous other Musk lackeys were installed.
The Tesla owner has essentially taken control of the OPM, along with the General Services Administration, through his management 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 wish to do work that will influence the future,' it checked out.
'Whether that means developing software, researching system implementation, or operating in some other sphere, I understand that I will contribute insight and creativity towards satisfying the obstacles I deal with.
'In my extra time, I enjoy playing the piano and clarinet and participating in music performances at Berkeley. Among my favorite activities is playing online blitz chess.'
Kliger's daddy, Larry Kliger, is president of Lawrence Allen & Associates, a commercial realty firm.
Musk last month appointed Kliger a special adviser to the director for details innovation at the Office of Personnel Management, where numerous other Musk lackeys were set up
Who are Musk's other nerds?
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 roles and cut costs.
At simply 19, Edward Coristine is the youngest of the fresh-faced bunch taking on business America and longstanding federal government organizations.
According to WIRED, he's been dubbed an 'professional' in his field, and specifics about his role aren't yet clear.
Akash Bobba, 21, Ethan Shaotran, 22, and Luke Farritor, 23, along with Coristine, have actually supposedly been granted A-suite level clearance for their work, indicating they can work out of the company's leading floor with access to all physical spaces and IT systems.
Musk's DOGE has actually been rapidly growing in power and expanding its remit, most recently securing clearance to access to limited parts of the General Services Administration buildings and IT systems.
These systems store sensitive data consisting of social security numbers, addresses and contact details.
Elon Musk employed a troupe of young men aged 19 to 25 - 3 of whom are believed to still remain in college - to fill high-powered engineering functions and cut costs
Finally, Gautier Cole Killian has been named for his role with DOGE, which is reportedly on a 'volunteer' basis at this phase.
After widespread criticism about the men's youth, Musk launched a statement about the consultations.
'Time to confess: Media reports stating that DOGE has some of world's finest software engineers remain in reality true,' Musk wrote on X.
Luke Farritor, 23
Luke Farritor has a known link to Musk already, having actually interned for SpaceX prior to landing his new gig.
Farritor, dropped out of the University of Nebraska in order to start working for Nat Friedman, the Silicon Valley business owner behind GitHub.
Friedman explained Farritor as 'a national treasure' after his appointment with DOGE was revealed.
He won part of a $700,000 prize in 2024 after using AI technology to help analyze a 2,000 year old file - part of the Vesuvius scrolls from Pompeii - which researchers had been attempting, and failing, to resolve for centuries.
The charred scroll was believed scorched beyond recognition.
Luke Farritor has a recognized link to Musk currently, having actually interned for SpaceX prior to landing his new gig
Edward Coristine, 19
The youngest of Musk's elite team is simply 19 and a trainee at Northeastern University in Boston.
Coristine supposedly interned at Musk's Neuralink for 3 months last summertime, after finishing high school.
Little is understood about Coristine's role at DOGE, nevertheless he is listed as an 'professional.'
WIRED cited sources declaring Coristine has been carrying out calls with staff in the department and making them 'go over code they had actually composed and justify their jobs.'
Employees were presumably confused by his inclusion in the conferences, and later on revealed concerns that they were not effectively briefed on his identity or function, even throughout the call.
Coristine's daddy, Charles, is the president of popcorn empire, LesserEvil. Coristine once worked as a staff member for the brand name.
Up up until recently, Coristine reportedly utilized a social networks handle named '@EdwardBigBaller.'
The youngest of Musk's elite team is just 19 and a trainee at Northeastern University in Boston
Akash Bobba, 21
Bobba is another 'expert' within the department still studying at the University of California, Berkeley.
According to a former LinkedIn account, which has actually given that been erased, Bobba was an investment engineering intern at a hedge fund.
He had likewise 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, local model United Nations. His dad is an academic in computer system science.
Bobba spoke at his graduation ceremony from West Windsor-Plainsboro South High School in July 2021, telling his classmates to 'appreciate the complexity in life'.
" We live in an age where simplicity rules supreme, where 30-second TikToks and 280-character tweets pertain to define our identities,' he said.
'This increasing determination to simplify even the most intricate stories into sensational tidbits, perpetuates misinformation and while doing so divides the communities, families, and relationships we cherish.
'What's the option, you might ask? Seek pain.'
Bobba is another 'expert' within the department still studying at the University of California, Berkeley
Ethan Shaotran, 22
Shaortran established 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 operating in the school's computing laboratory on autonomous automobiles.
Musk is famously attempting to develop self-driving automobiles at his Tesla headquarters.
Shaortran becomes part of the Harvard Mountaineering Club and worked as a scuba divemaster in Hawaii over a space year.
He likewise has a link to Musk, having taken part in his xAI 'hackathon'. He and his group were runner ups after they used xAI's Grok to produce plausible actions from X followers to a theoretical question.
Shaortran established Energize AI - a scheduling assistant for specialists. The startup made 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 apparently working as a 'volunteer' with DOGE, although in what capacity remains uncertain.
The 24-year-old finished McGill University.
Killian was working as an engineer at Jump Trading, which focuses on high-frequency monetary trades and algorithms
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Musk's DOGE boasts sweeping power
Musk is leading an amazing civilian evaluation of the federal government with Trump's contract.
'It emerged 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 basically get rid of the entire thing. It's beyond repair.'
Musk recently hinted he was likewise the mastermind behind Trump's decision to purge federal staff members by publishing a symbolic photo on X harkening back to his notorious Twitter clean.
At the time, he sent a letter to personnel titled: 'A Fork in the Road.' The same title was used in Trump's current email proposing generous lay-off plans
Musk later shared on X that he commissioned an artwork of a huge fork standing in the road, suggesting it was all connected.
Musk does not hold elected workplace, however on Monday was formally appointed a 'special government worker' by the White House.
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