One of Elon Musk's geek army is trolling his new fans by charging $1,000 to read a manifesto about why he joined DOGE - only to discover the post is blank.
Gavin Kliger, 25, is one of six baby-faced boys 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 a company-wide email sent to workers at USAID informing them not to come into the agency's Washington DC head office on Monday.
Kliger sent the instruction from a USAID email address he was supplied 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, building 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 quit a seven-figure salary 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 adequate to spend the amazing fee discovered there wasn't even that - the post was totally 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 offered up a seven-figure salary to conserve America'. Despite a $1,000 paywall, it is entirely empty
'Poetically blank, please review your life choices,' one comment on the post read.
Kliger furthered his intricate trolling with an unusual voicemail welcoming that pointed anybody who called his registered contact number to the post.
'I simply wrote a beautiful Substack on this, the Weekly Byte, if you just go there, it lags the paywall, but I believe it will answer that question for you ... it's quite great,' he said.
The one-minute greeting was an extended variation of the trick where the owner of the phone pretends to answer, but it is actually tape-recorded.
Kliger initially pretended he was driving through a tunnel and having trouble hearing the call, then ultimately exclaiming, '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 just has two other posts - both of which are free to read.
Despite its name, Kliger's Substack was not updated weekly, and just has 3 posts
Unlike the rest of his Substack, the post was 'subscriber just' with a $1,000-a-month fee - or parentingliteracy.com $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 elections - Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth.
Gaetz was nominated for attorney-general but withdrew after a damning House report discovered he paid for sex with 17-year-old girl and many other misbehaviors.
Kliger's post entitled 'The Curious Case of Matt Gaetz: How the Deep State Destroys Its Enemies' portrayed 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 election filled with frequent Trump-ally talking points.
Hegseth was narrowly verified by the Senate regardless of his history of and claims of sexual attack and harassment.
Kliger's claim that he left a 'seven-figure task' to join DOGE is also suspicious as his personal 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 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 informing them not to come into the company's Washington DC headquarters on Monday
The Berkeley graduate apparently instructed all staff members at the firm not to go back to Washington head office 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 designated him a special adviser to the director for details technology at the Office of Personnel Management, where many other Musk lackeys were installed.
The Tesla owner has basically taken over the OPM, in addition to 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 application, investigating system release, or working in some other sphere, I understand that I will contribute insight and imagination towards fulfilling the obstacles I face.
'In my extra time, I delight in playing the piano and clarinet and participating in music concerts at Berkeley. Among my preferred activities is playing online blitz chess.'
Kliger's dad, Larry Kliger, is president of Lawrence Allen & Associates, a business genuine estate firm.
Musk last month appointed Kliger a special consultant to the director for details technology at the Office of Personnel Management, where various other Musk lackeys were installed
Who are Musk's other geeks?
Musk got a troupe 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.
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 called an 'professional' in his field, and specifics about his role aren't yet clear.
Akash Bobba, 21, Ethan Shaotran, 22, and Luke Farritor, 23, together with Coristine, have actually apparently been granted A-suite level clearance for their work, suggesting they can work out of the company's top flooring with access to all physical areas and IT systems.
Musk's DOGE has actually been quickly growing in power and expanding its remit, most recently protecting clearance to access to restricted parts of the General Services Administration buildings and IT systems.
These systems keep sensitive information consisting of social security numbers, addresses and contact details.
Elon Musk employed 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
Finally, Gautier Cole Killian has actually been named for his function with DOGE, which is reportedly on a 'volunteer' basis at this phase.
After prevalent criticism about the guys's youth, Musk released a declaration about the visits.
'Time to confess: Media reports saying that DOGE has some of world's best software application engineers remain in reality real,' 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, dropped out of the University of Nebraska in order to begin 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 reward in 2024 after utilizing AI innovation to assist figure out a 2,000 year old file - part of the Vesuvius scrolls from Pompeii - which scientists had been attempting, and failing, to fix for centuries.
The charred scroll was thought scorched beyond recognition.
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 squad is just 19 and a trainee at Northeastern University in Boston.
Coristine supposedly interned at Musk's Neuralink for three months last summer season, after finishing high school.
Little is learnt about Coristine's function at DOGE, however he is noted as an 'expert.'
WIRED pointed out sources declaring Coristine has actually been carrying out calls with staff in the department and making them 'review code they had composed and justify their tasks.'
Employees were presumably confused by his addition in the meetings, and later on expressed issues that they were not correctly briefed on his identity or function, even during the call.
Coristine's dad, Charles, is the president of popcorn empire, LesserEvil. Coristine when worked as a staff member for the brand.
Up until just recently, Coristine reportedly utilized a social media manage named '@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 'professional' within the department still studying at the University of California, Berkeley.
According to a former LinkedIn account, which has actually considering that been deleted, Bobba was a financial investment engineering intern at a hedge fund.
He had likewise previously interned for Meta and Palantir - who was established by 2016 MAGA donor, Peter Thiel.
Just six years back, Bobba was the organizer behind the Princeton Junction, New Jersey, regional model United Nations. His father is an academic in computer science.
Bobba spoke at his graduation event 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 reigns supreme, where 30-second TikToks and 280-character tweets pertain to specify our identities,' he said.
'This increasing willingness to simplify even the most complicated stories into spectacular tidbits, perpetuates false information and while doing so divides the neighborhoods, families, 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 professionals. The start-up 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 automobiles.
Musk is famously trying to develop self-driving automobiles at his Tesla head office.
Shaortran belongs to the Harvard Mountaineering Club and worked as a scuba divemaster in Hawaii over a gap year.
He also has a link to Musk, having actually taken part in his xAI 'hackathon'. He and his group were runner ups after they utilized xAI's Grok to create plausible reactions from X fans to a theoretical concern.
Shaortran established Energize AI - a scheduling assistant for experts. The startup earned 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 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 concentrates 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 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 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 also the mastermind behind Trump's choice to purge federal employees by publishing a symbolic photo on X harkening back to his infamous Twitter clean.
At the time, he sent a letter to personnel titled: 'A Fork in the Road.' The same title was utilized 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 roadway, indicating it was all linked.
Musk does not hold chosen office, but on Monday was formally designated a 'special civil servant' by the White House.
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