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Among Elon Musk's nerd army is trolling his new fans by charging $1,000 to check out a manifesto about why he signed up with DOGE - just to discover the post is blank.

Gavin Kliger, 25, is among six baby-faced young boys with little-to-no 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 to workers at USAID informing them not to come into the agency's Washington DC headquarters on Monday.

Kliger sent the instruction from a USAID email address he was offered with as part of high-level access to its systems, together with fellow DOGE nerd Luke Farritor.

While the personnel were kept home, DOGE gained access to the firm's IT system, constructing security, and classified products, and began dismantling it.

Just hours before he sent the email, Kliger made a post on his Substack page entitled: 'Why DOGE. Why I gave up a seven-figure wage to save America.'

Unlike the rest of his Substack, the post was 'subscriber just' with a $1,000-a-month cost - or $10,000 for an entire year - to access a single word of it.

However, those who were curious adequate to cough up the amazing cost found there wasn't even that - the post was completely blank.

Gavin Kliger, 25, is one of 6 baby-faced kids with little-to-no 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 quit a seven-figure salary to save America'. Despite a $1,000 paywall, it is entirely empty

'Poetically blank, please reassess your life choices,' one remark on the post read.

Kliger furthered his intricate trolling with an unusual voicemail greeting that pointed anyone who called his registered telephone number to the post.

'I simply wrote a lovely Substack on this, the Weekly Byte, if you simply go there, it lags the paywall, but I believe it will address 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 tape-recorded.

Kliger first pretended he was driving through a tunnel and having problem hearing the call, then eventually exclaiming, 'They said what? No, no, I don't believe that's right.'

The taped 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 complimentary to check out.

Despite its name, Kliger's Substack was not updated weekly, and only has three posts

Unlike the rest of his Substack, the post was 'customer only' with a $1,000-a-month cost - or $10,000 for a whole year - to access a single word of it

They are both strident defenses of Donald Trump's most questionable 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 girl and various other misconducts.

Kliger's post entitled 'The Curious Case of Matt Gaetz: How the Deep State Destroys Its Enemies' represented Gaetz as an innocent victim who was 'framed'.

His other post, forum.batman.gainedge.org 'Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense: The Warrior Washington Fears', was an enthusiastic defense of the former Fox News host's election filled with regular Trump-ally talking points.

Hegseth was narrowly validated 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 join DOGE is also suspicious as his personal sector work history didn't consist of such a function.

His newest job, according to his LinkedIn, was as a 'senior software engineer' at Databricks, a cloud computing company in San Francisco, from May 2020 to last month.

Salaries for that position at Databricks vary from $102,000 to $308,000 a year according to Certainly, while Glassdoor puts the leading end at $321,000, including benefit.

Kliger was the one who sent a company-wide email sent to staff members at USAID telling them not to come into the agency's Washington DC head office on Monday

The Berkeley graduate supposedly advised all workers at the agency not to go back 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 appointed him an unique advisor to the director for details innovation at the Office of Personnel Management, where various other Musk lackeys were set up.

The Tesla owner has actually basically taken over 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 very first dan in Taekwondo, and an accomplished pianist.

'I wish to do work that will affect the future,' it read.

'Whether that indicates developing software application, researching system deployment, or operating in some other sphere, I understand that I will contribute insight and creativity towards meeting the challenges I deal with.

'In my extra time, I take pleasure in playing the piano and clarinet and attending music shows at Berkeley. One of my favorite activities is playing online blitz chess.'

Kliger's dad, Larry Kliger, is president of Lawrence Allen & Associates, a commercial realty firm.

Musk last month appointed Kliger an unique advisor to the director for details technology at the Office of Personnel Management, where numerous other Musk lackeys were installed

Who are Musk's other nerds?

Musk enlisted a troupe of boys aged 19 to 25 - three of whom are believed 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 lot handling corporate America and longstanding federal government organizations.

According to WIRED, he's been dubbed an 'expert' 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 reportedly been approved A-suite level clearance for their work, implying they can work out of the firm's top floor with access to all physical areas and IT systems.

Musk's DOGE has actually been rapidly growing in power and broadening its remit, most recently protecting clearance to access to limited parts of the General Services Administration buildings and IT systems.

These systems keep delicate information consisting of social security numbers, addresses and contact details.

Elon Musk got a troupe of boys aged 19 to 25 - three of whom are believed to still remain in college - to fill high-powered engineering functions and cut costs

Finally, Gautier Cole Killian has actually been called for his role with DOGE, which is supposedly on a 'volunteer' basis at this phase.

After prevalent criticism about the males's youth, Musk launched a declaration about the consultations.

'Time to admit: Media reports saying that DOGE has some of world's best software engineers remain in fact real,' Musk wrote on X.

Luke Farritor, 23

Luke Farritor has a known link to Musk already, having interned for SpaceX prior to landing his brand-new gig.

Farritor, left of the University of Nebraska in order to begin working for Nat Friedman, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur behind GitHub.

Friedman explained Farritor as 'a national treasure' after his consultation with DOGE was made public.

He won part of a $700,000 prize in 2024 after using AI innovation to help decipher a 2,000 years of age document - part of the Vesuvius scrolls from Pompeii - which scientists had actually been attempting, and failing, to solve for centuries.

The charred scroll was thought charred beyond recognition.

Luke Farritor has a known 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 simply 19 and a trainee at Northeastern University in Boston.

Coristine reportedly interned at Musk's Neuralink for annunciogratis.net three months last summertime, after graduating high school.

Little is learnt about Coristine's function at DOGE, however he is noted as an 'expert.'

WIRED cited sources declaring Coristine has actually been carrying out calls with staff in the department and making them 'discuss code they had composed and validate their jobs.'

Employees were supposedly puzzled by his inclusion in the conferences, and later revealed issues that they were not appropriately briefed on his identity or function, even throughout the call.

Coristine's father, Charles, is the president of popcorn empire, LesserEvil. Coristine when worked as a staff member for the brand.

Up till just recently, Coristine apparently used a social networks manage called '@EdwardBigBaller.'

The youngest of Musk's elite squad is simply 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 since been deleted, Bobba was an investment engineering intern at a hedge fund.

He had likewise previously interned for Meta and Palantir - who was founded by 2016 MAGA donor, .

Just six years earlier, Bobba was the organizer behind the Princeton Junction, New Jersey, regional model United Nations. His father is an academic in computer system science.

Bobba spoke at his graduation event from West Windsor-Plainsboro South High School in July 2021, informing his schoolmates to 'appreciate the complexity in life'.

" We reside in an age where simpleness rules supreme, where 30-second TikToks and 280-character tweets pertain to specify our identities,' he said.

'This increasing willingness to simplify even the most intricate stories into astonishing bits, perpetuates misinformation and while doing so divides the neighborhoods, households, and relationships we cherish.

'What's the service, 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 lab on autonomous lorries.

Musk is famously trying to develop self-driving cars 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 also has a link to Musk, having actually participated in his xAI 'hackathon'. He and his group were runner ups after they used xAI's Grok to produce possible actions from X fans to a hypothetical question.

Shaortran established Energize AI - a scheduling assistant for professionals. 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 focuses on high-frequency financial trades and algorithms.

Now, he is supposedly working as a 'volunteer' with DOGE, although in what capacity remains uncertain.

The 24-year-old graduated 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 review of the federal government with Trump's agreement.

'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 simply a ball of worms. You've got to essentially eliminate the entire thing. It's beyond repair.'

Musk just recently hinted he was also the mastermind behind Trump's choice to purge federal workers by publishing a symbolic picture on X harkening back to his infamous Twitter cleanse.

At the time, he sent out a letter to personnel titled: 'A Fork in the Road.' The exact same title was used in Trump's current email proposing generous lay-off plans

Musk later on shared on X that he commissioned an art work of a huge fork standing in the road, indicating it was all connected.

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