DOGE Goon Accused of Screaming at Workers on 36-Hour Shift
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Gavin Kliger, 25, is accused of hounding a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau team to fire 90 percent of their colleagues by Thursday.

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.

  • Fedizen@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago

    Dude isn’t an edgelord because edgelords play around on the line. This kid is a fascist

  • OldChicoAle@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • Wren@lemmy.worldM
    9·
    2 months ago

    Wait… Reuters called this dude an “edgelord”?

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

  • diffusive@lemmy.world
    14·
    2 months ago

    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

  • pyre@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 months ago

    but it’s not like musk has anything to gain from cfpb being gutted, right?

  • Inflo@sopuli.xyz
    372·
    2 months ago

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

    • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
      71·
      2 months ago

      Rochambeaued

      Hah exactly!
      *wikipedia’s that term, finds some French general, nothing significant about his death*
      Yeah, good reference!

      • sulgoth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        SouthPark reference for those out of the loop, not the poster above though, he knows what’s up.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
    47·
    2 months ago

    It’s only a matter of time before someone gets sick of this shit, beats the crap out of him, and throws him in a dumpster.

  • Ad Blocker 117@lemmy.world
    23·
    2 months ago

    I suspect the goal is to ensure all these services and institutions fail so that tRump can assign his buddies to privatize them for profit and skimming. If you thought health and home owner insurance companies were corrupt, wait until you apply for social security or medicare and have it declined by a baby tRump or MAGAt Republican.

    • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Well, anytime someone says “small government” what they really mean is outsourcing.

      While I’m sure there will be a lot of that, I don’t think that is “the plan”.

      Trump campaigned by saying he would be mean to immigrants, cut government services, and implement tariffs.

      He got elected, so he’s doing those three things.

      Additionally, for all intents and purposes he’s the king of the US, so he can do these things in such a way as to maximise offence to the left because he finds it gratifying how powerless we are to prevent him.

      In short, there is no plan other than gratifying Trump each day.

  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
    431·
    2 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.