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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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[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 27 points 1 month ago

Put that kid in time out

[–] mapmyhike@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month 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.

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[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month 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.

[–] arun@ani.social 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If I were a career federal employee with decades on the job, and some snot nosed discount Nazi baby comes into my workplace and does this shit, I don't care what happens, I'm beating the little shit to within an inch of his miserable life.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Just keep calling him bud, dude, kid, et. until he snaps and you can "be in reasonable fear of receiving a battery"

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, I'm not sure why you're assuming you'd be in the 10% they kept around and not the 90% they kicked out at even the faintest hint of obstinance. The only people left are the ones they considered easy to bully.

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[–] AngrySquirrel@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ask if he needs a nap, a juice box, a snack or if his tummy hurts and if that is why he is so cranky. Also call him champ and slugger.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

"Calm down"

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 157 points 1 month ago (6 children)

If I'm being forced to layoff 90% of my department, and this goon starts screaming after 36 straight hours, and a court order to cease, I'm going to punch him in the face, mid-scream, as hard as I can, probably multiple times. And I'll bet he couldn't find a single witness.

"He fell down." -Everyone else present

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m going to punch him in the face, mid-scream, as hard as I can, probably multiple times.

I mean, I certainly get the sentiment. But these are the same people with a gestapo that's dragging people off by their hair, throwing them into cargo planes, and shoveling them into an El Salvadorian concentration camp.

What's frustrating is to see the last 10% not following the first 90% off the job in solidarity. Americans who are willing to work 36 hour shifts aren't doing their peers or their countrymen any favors, even if they do work for the CFPB. That department cannot fulfill its purpose under the current management and you're foolish if you continue to perpetuate the hoax that it is functional.

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[–] j0ester@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I got you boo. I’ll help pay for your lawyer.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No need for a lawyer. I preemptively saw (see?) that the goon walked into a door.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Poor guy bounced off, rolled down six flights of stairs ("But it's only a 3-story building!") and landed in a running woodchipper.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Weird thing is that the woodchipper mulch went straight into the ground and got cemented over. If only we had known

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[–] leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 6 points 1 month ago

tsk.. this young and he already has high blood pressure. i dunno bro.

[–] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Must have been screaming too hard and got dizzy...

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That's what happens when you've been on a Pervitin bender.

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[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 55 points 1 month ago (5 children)

So he gave up 7 figures to work 36 hour shifts as a government employee? Dude is definitely not fucking smart

[–] papertowels@mander.xyz 22 points 1 month ago

No - he's forcing others to work 36 hour shifts then yelling at them for not being fast enough.

[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 5 points 1 month ago

or he’s getting in at the ground floor of the ‘new’ nazi government

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

He's gotta ~~build up~~ burn his resume

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Plus, he’s young enough that if nobody kills him, he’ll definitely have to answer for his actions at the American version of the Nuremberg Trials.

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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 58 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd love to read a feel-good article about this man's suicide.

[–] arun@ani.social 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Can't happen soon enough.

[–] Litebit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Razis and Nazis have taken over US.

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

Did somebody say "DOGOON"?

(Violence Fight, Taito, 1989, arcade.)

Screenshot of Violence Fight, Taito, 1989, arcade. A fighting game where attacks give off non-standard onomatopoeic sounds like "DOGOON", depicted in the screenshot.

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

That’s when it’s time to pop the AirPods Pros in and noise cancel him. You want me to quit because you’re having a tantrum to expedite me leaving? I’m older, wiser, and will just double down on staying.

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

Cause that’s a great way to motivate me and get me to do what you want, just scream at me. That shows me you have power and authority…oh, no, wait, that just shows how much of a huge man baby you are and how much pleasure I'll have telling you to fuck off right to your face.

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