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DOGE goon accused of screaming at workers on 36-hour shift (www.thedailybeast.com)
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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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[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 63 points 1 week ago

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 32 points 1 week ago

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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[-] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

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

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

Put him on ski patrol duty with the patrol's entire supply of the stuff and see how far he gets behind enemy lines.

[-] j0ester@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

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

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

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

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

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 6 points 1 week ago

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

[-] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah, if only we [ Removed by Reddit ]

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 5 points 1 week ago

"And dismembered himself"

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[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 56 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

36-hour shift

Our government is being dismantled by children on fucking amphetamines.

I'm usually against it for office jobs, but let's drug test these idiots.

What am I saying, if they don't already have an rx, I'm sure Elon could easily facilitate it.

[-] tischbier@feddit.org 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah. No sane adult wants to work 36-hours. This is just pure insanity. I wouldn’t ever work a shift like that. Basically only if the world was literally ending—we are literally being invaded right now. Otherwise, we can handle it on Monday.

The Trump White House was a pill factory last time (there’s public records). So, it’s probably even more ramped up now.

Don’t you love that they are trying to keep highly qualified disabled ADHD people like me out of the work force but at the same time abuse the medicine we need? Fucking pricks.

I wouldn’t be shocked if it was just straight cocaine. 36-hours is beyond. Feels way more cocaine driven— especially the anger/irritability.

He speaks like someone who has never been smacked in the fucking mouth. That’s ok we have the remedy.

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[-] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

The previous Trump admin pharmqcy broke records for how much drugs were being dispensed. So probably breaking that record again.

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[-] Inflo@sopuli.xyz 35 points 1 week ago

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

[-] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

¿Por que no los dos?

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[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week 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.

[-] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 14 points 1 week ago

I see no problem here.

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

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

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

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

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Rochambeaued

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

[-] sulgoth@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] diffusive@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week 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

[-] Treetrimmer@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Porque no los dos?

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago

I would have beaten him with a fucking keyboard.

You're getting fired anyway, might as well reenact this scene with enthusiasm.

[-] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Keyboards too nice. You need to mash his Nazi face in with a stapler.

[-] verdantbanana@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

[-] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

I had to see this and now you do too. You're welcome.

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[-] mapmyhike@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week 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.

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[-] DrFistington@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

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

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

De-nazification was a lie. The East and West German governments were flush with ex-Nazi mid-level bureaucracts by the end of the 1940s, with Nazi officer survivors holding positions as senior as cabinet secretaries and high courts.

Germany's post-World War II government was full of Nazis. A new study says that half of all senior officials in Germany's Justice Ministry in the 1950s and 1960s were former Nazis.

While US authorities sought justice by putting 16 lawyers and jurists who played a role in the Nazi regime on trial in 1947, Germany tried one lone prosecutor after establishing the West German Federal Republic in 1949.

Many of those working for the ministry in the post-war years came from backgrounds as lawyers or judges in Nazi Germany, and came to the department to provide legal advice as West Germany rebuilt itself. By coming together and closing ranks, the network of former Nazis not only protected one another from legal prosecution but also bound together to create the nation’s laws.

Nevermind the NATO commanders with Nazi careers who helped to form the post-war anti-communist movement's backbone.

[-] papertowels@mander.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

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

[-] smeenz@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He was offered a role where he could openly express his hatred and narcissism in the form of unlimited cruelty to other humans. I suspect he would have done it for free.

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[-] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago

Put that kid in time out

[-] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week 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.

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 11 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] gimpchrist@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Oh no wonder these brats are acting like this... you give a 25-year-old seven figures and.. there you go. It's like giving a five-year-old fucking sugar. Smack the goddamn out of him and send to his room with no supper.

[-] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

He never got seven figures. He claimed he would have made that in silicon valley had he not joined doge. Based on his behavior I doubt that

[-] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Wait… Reuters called this dude an “edgelord”?

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

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[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

Ask any doctor; if you've been awake for more than 24 hours straight you're mentally impaired. That's without any drugs, just pure biology.

I don't have access to blood tests, but I'd bet serious money that he was using some sort of medication.

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[-] pyre@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

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

[-] thedruid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Good way for that young asshole to get his jaw broken

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