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Among Elon Musk's geek 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 one of six baby-faced 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 employees at USAID telling them not to come into the agency's Washington DC head office on Monday.

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

While the staff were kept home, access to the company's IT system, developing security, and classified products, and began dismantling it.

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

Unlike the rest of his Substack, the post was 'customer only' 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 adequate to cough up the remarkable charge discovered there wasn't even that - the post was entirely blank.

Gavin Kliger, 25, is among 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 entitled: 'Why DOGE. Why I provided up a seven-figure salary to conserve America'. Despite a $1,000 paywall, it is completely empty

'Poetically blank, please reassess your life choices,' one talk about the post read.

Kliger enhanced his fancy trolling with an unusual voicemail welcoming that pointed anybody who called his registered contact number to the post.

'I just composed a gorgeous Substack on this, the Weekly Byte, if you just go there, it's behind the paywall, but I believe it will respond to that concern for you ... it's respectable,' he said.

The one-minute greeting was a lengthened version of the trick where the owner of the phone pretends to respond to, but it is actually tape-recorded.

Kliger initially pretended he was driving through a tunnel and having problem hearing the call, then eventually exclaiming, engel-und-waisen.de 'They said what? No, no, I do not believe 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 only has 2 other posts - both of which are complimentary to read.

Despite its name, Kliger's Substack was not upgraded weekly, and just 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 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 girl and many other misconducts.

Kliger's post titled '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 previous Fox News host's nomination filled with regular Trump-ally talking points.

Hegseth was narrowly verified by the Senate in spite of his history of alcohol abuse and claims of sexual attack and harassment.

Kliger's claim that he left a 'seven-figure job' to sign up with DOGE is likewise suspicious as his economic sector work history didn't include such a role.

His newest task, according to his LinkedIn, was as a 'senior software application 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 leading end at $321,000, consisting of perk.

Kliger was the one who sent a company-wide email sent to employees at USAID telling them not to come into the company's Washington DC headquarters on Monday

The Berkeley graduate reportedly instructed all staff members at the agency not to go back to Washington headquarters on Monday

Kliger graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, bio.rogstecnologia.com.br in 2020 and interned at Twitter in 2019 - well before Musk's takeover in 2022.

Musk last month appointed him an unique consultant to the director for details technology at the Office of Personnel Management, where many other Musk lackeys were set up.

The Tesla owner has essentially taken control of the OPM, together 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 implies establishing software, investigating system deployment, or working in some other sphere, I know that I will contribute insight and creativity towards fulfilling the challenges I deal with.

'In my extra time, I delight in playing the piano and clarinet and participating in music concerts at Berkeley. Among my preferred leisure activities is playing online blitz chess.'

Kliger's father, Larry Kliger, is president of Lawrence Allen & Associates, an industrial property company.

Musk last month designated Kliger a special advisor to the director for details innovation at the Office of Personnel Management, where numerous other Musk lackeys were installed

Who are Musk's other nerds?

Musk employed a performers of young guys aged 19 to 25 - three of whom are believed to still remain in college - to fill high-powered engineering functions and cut expenses.

At just 19, Edward Coristine is the youngest of the fresh-faced bunch taking on business America and longstanding government institutions.

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 supposedly been given A-suite level clearance for their work, indicating 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 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 save delicate data consisting of social security numbers, addresses and contact details.

Elon Musk employed a performers of young males 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 function with DOGE, which is reportedly on a 'volunteer' basis at this stage.

After prevalent criticism about the men's youth, Musk launched a declaration about the appointments.

'Time to admit: Media reports stating that DOGE has some of world's finest software application engineers remain in reality real,' Musk composed on X.

Luke Farritor, 23

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

Farritor, left 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 consultation with DOGE was made public.

He won part of a $700,000 reward in 2024 after using AI technology to help figure out a 2,000 year old document - part of the Vesuvius scrolls from Pompeii - which researchers had actually been trying, and failing, to resolve for centuries.

The charred scroll was believed burnt beyond acknowledgment.

Luke Farritor has a known link to Musk already, having interned for SpaceX prior to landing his 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 three months last summer, users.atw.hu after finishing high school.

Little is understood about Coristine's role at DOGE, however he is listed as an 'specialist.'

WIRED pointed out sources alleging Coristine has actually been performing calls with staff in the department and making them 'review code they had actually written and validate their jobs.'

Employees were apparently confused by his addition in the meetings, and later expressed concerns that they were not effectively briefed on his identity or function, even throughout the call.

Coristine's dad, Charles, is the primary executive of popcorn empire, LesserEvil. Coristine when worked as a team member for the brand name.

Up up until just recently, Coristine reportedly used a social media manage named '@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 considering that been deleted, Bobba was an investment engineering intern at a hedge fund.

He had also formerly interned for Meta and botdb.win Palantir - who was established by 2016 MAGA donor, Peter Thiel.

Just six years back, Bobba was the organizer behind the Princeton Junction, New Jersey, local model United Nations. His daddy is a scholastic in computer science.

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

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

'This increasing desire to streamline even the most intricate stories into spectacular tidbits, perpetuates false information and in the procedure divides the neighborhoods, families, and relationships we value.

'What's the option, you might ask? Seek pain.'

Bobba is another 'specialist' within the department still studying at the University of California, Berkeley

Ethan Shaotran, 22

Shaortran established Energize AI - a scheduling assistant for professionals. 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 laboratory on autonomous lorries.

Musk is notoriously attempting to establish self-driving cars at his Tesla head office.

Shaortran belongs to the Harvard Mountaineering Club and worked as a scuba divemaster in Hawaii over a space year.

He also 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 develop plausible responses from X fans to a theoretical question.

Shaortran founded Energize AI - a scheduling assistant for experts. 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 finished McGill University.

Killian was working as an engineer at Jump Trading, which specializes in high-frequency monetary trades and algorithms

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Musk's DOGE boasts sweeping power

Musk is leading an extraordinary civilian evaluation of the federal government with Trump's arrangement.

'It ended up being obvious 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 get rid of the entire thing. It's beyond repair.'

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

At the time, he sent a letter to staff titled: 'A Fork in the Road.' The same title was utilized in Trump's current email proposing generous lay-off packages

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

Musk does not hold chosen office, but on Monday was officially designated a 'unique civil servant' by the White House.

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