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Among Elon Musk's nerd army is trolling his new fans by charging $1,000 to read a manifesto about why he joined DOGE - just to the post is blank.

Gavin Kliger, 25, is among six baby-faced kids with little-to-no federal government experience handpicked by the 'First Buddy' to sow havoc in the civil service.

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

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

While the personnel were kept home, DOGE gained access to the firm's IT system, building security, and classified materials, and started dismantling it.

Just hours before he sent the email, Kliger made a post on his Substack page titled: 'Why DOGE. Why I quit a seven-figure income to conserve America.'

Unlike the rest of his Substack, the post was 'subscriber just' 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 enough to spend the amazing fee discovered there wasn't even that - the post was completely blank.

Gavin Kliger, 25, is one of 6 baby-faced young boys with little-to-no federal government experience handpicked by Elon Musk to sow havoc in the civil service

Kliger made a post on his Substack page titled: 'Why DOGE. Why I gave up a seven-figure wage to conserve America'. Despite a $1,000 paywall, it is completely empty

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

Kliger advanced his intricate trolling with a strange voicemail greeting that pointed anyone who called his registered phone number to the post.

'I simply composed a beautiful Substack on this, the Weekly Byte, if you simply 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 prank where the owner of the phone pretends to answer, however it is actually taped.

Kliger first pretended he was driving through a tunnel and having trouble 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 updated weekly, and just has 2 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 'customer just' 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 controversial cabinet elections - Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth.

Gaetz was chosen for attorney-general but withdrew after a damning House report discovered he paid for sex with 17-year-old woman and various 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 an enthusiastic defense of the former Fox News host's nomination filled with regular Trump-ally talking points.

Hegseth was narrowly confirmed by the Senate in spite 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 economic sector work history didn't include such a function.

His newest task, according to his LinkedIn, was as a 'senior software 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, including reward.

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

The Berkeley graduate reportedly instructed all workers at the agency not to go back to Washington headquarters 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 appointed him a special consultant to the director for sitiosecuador.com details innovation at the Office of Personnel Management, where numerous other Musk lackeys were installed.

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 want to do work that will influence the future,' it read.

'Whether that implies developing software application, looking into system implementation, or working in some other sphere, I know that I will contribute insight and imagination towards satisfying the challenges I face.

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

Kliger's father, Larry Kliger, is president of Lawrence Allen & Associates, a commercial genuine estate firm.

Musk last month designated Kliger an unique adviser to the director for details technology at the Office of Personnel Management, where various 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 thought 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 business America and longstanding federal 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, in addition to Coristine, have apparently been granted A-suite level clearance for their work, indicating they can work out of the company's top floor with access to all physical areas and IT systems.

Musk's DOGE has actually been quickly growing in power and expanding its remit, most just recently securing clearance to access to restricted parts of the General Services Administration buildings and IT systems.

These systems keep sensitive information including social security numbers, addresses and contact details.

Elon Musk enlisted a troupe of young males aged 19 to 25 - three of whom are believed to still remain in college - to fill high-powered engineering roles 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 widespread criticism about the men's youth, Musk launched a declaration about the consultations.

'Time to confess: Media reports saying that DOGE has a few 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 actually 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 visit with DOGE was revealed.

He won part of a $700,000 prize in 2024 after using AI innovation to help analyze a 2,000 year old document - part of the Vesuvius scrolls from Pompeii - which scientists had been trying, and failing, to resolve for centuries.

The charred scroll was believed scorched 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 simply 19 and a trainee at Northeastern University in Boston.

Coristine supposedly interned at Musk's Neuralink for 3 months last summertime, after finishing high school.

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

WIRED mentioned sources alleging Coristine has been carrying out calls with personnel in the department and making them 'go over code they had composed and validate their jobs.'

Employees were presumably puzzled by his inclusion in the conferences, and later expressed issues that they were not appropriately informed 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 recently, Coristine reportedly used a social media handle named '@EdwardBigBaller.'

The youngest of Musk's elite team is just 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 previous LinkedIn account, which has actually given that been deleted, Bobba was an investment engineering intern at a hedge fund.

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

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

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

" We live in an age where simpleness 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 intricate stories into marvelous bits, perpetuates misinformation and in the procedure divides the communities, households, and relationships we treasure.

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

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

Ethan Shaotran, 22

Shaortran founded Energize AI - a scheduling assistant for specialists. The startup made 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 self-governing cars.

Musk is famously trying 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 likewise 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 produce plausible actions from X followers to a theoretical question.

Shaortran founded Energize AI - a scheduling assistant for professionals. The start-up 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 capability remains uncertain.

The 24-year-old graduated McGill University.

Killian was working as an engineer at Jump Trading, which concentrates on high-frequency financial trades and algorithms

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Musk's DOGE boasts sweeping power

Musk is leading a remarkable civilian evaluation of the federal government with Trump's agreement.

'It became evident 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 staff members by posting a symbolic photo on X harkening back to his notorious Twitter cleanse.

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

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

Musk does not hold elected office, but on Monday was formally appointed a 'special federal government staff member' by the White House.

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