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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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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 215 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

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.

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 week ago

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

[–] tischbier@feddit.org 27 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

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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[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Have you tried buying Adderall, or any prescription amphetamine, legit from a pharmacy?

Elon may be able to facilitate it, but I doubt even he could effectuate it.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 37 points 1 week ago

He's the wealthiest man in the world, he can have anything he wants. He could simply buy a pharmaceutical factory, if he wanted it bad enough.

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[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't think it's all just drugs doing it and I don't want to shift the blame off of him. I think him and the whole administration are just b̲a̲d̲ people, who may be augmented by illicitly obtained substances.

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[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 151 points 1 week 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

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

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

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

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

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 39 points 6 days 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 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

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

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[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 105 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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 46 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 days ago

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

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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If you're going to get a free ticket to El Salvador, you may as well go make sure it's his final beating.

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[–] gimpchrist@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 57 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] arun@ani.social 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Can't happen soon enough.

[–] arun@ani.social 51 points 1 week 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 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] AngrySquirrel@lemm.ee 13 points 6 days 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.

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[–] thedruid@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Good way for that young asshole to get his jaw broken

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Then the jaw breaker might get his citizenship revoked and be sent to CECOT or Gitmo. Might be worth it, though.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Better make sure his jar is broken through the back of his head so that it was worth it then. A death sentence is a death sentence, and it would be a shame if simple assault was the highest crime.

[–] BobSentMe@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"He tripped and fell down 35 flights of stairs. It was a tragedy." "The building is only 12 stories tall." "Yeah, he had to be carried back up a couple of times."

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 46 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.

[–] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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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.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 40 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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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[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This cunt should no longer be able to walk the streets.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

This cunt should no longer be able to walk ~~the streets~~

FTFY

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[–] Inflo@sopuli.xyz 32 points 6 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 24 points 6 days ago

36 hour goon shift

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[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week 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.

[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 26 points 6 days ago

Put that kid in time out

[–] mapmyhike@lemmy.world 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.

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Enemy of the people

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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

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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

That's a grin I'd like to punch off his face. Nazi scum.

[–] diffusive@lemmy.world 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

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[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week 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.

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