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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.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

I doubt there would be any witnesses, even if it happened in a roomful of people.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I am gooooning

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

¿Por que no los dos?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Porque no los dos?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago

Put that kid in time out

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wait… Reuters called this dude an “edgelord”?

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I think they're quoting the linked Forbes article not the linked Reuters one. I searched for "edgelord" between the two

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm honestly shocked no one has Rochambeaued this narcissistic jackass.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Rochambeaued

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Ah cheers, found it - game where people kick each other in the groin

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Another fucking neo-Nazi loser. Firing people and boosting white supremacists, fuck him.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Naah im good on fucking him. Aint my type

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Wait, he did WHAT at work?! That's really inappropriate!

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