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Never, ever hit “Reply All” to respond to an email. We all do it, and it is always a bad idea. 

John Kirby, the National Security spokesman for the Biden/Harris administration, was reminded of that lesson yesterday. He accidentally revealed his disdain for veterans and Gold Star families, brushing aside their concerns about the failed Afghanistan exit. 

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Kirby’s “Kinsley Gaffe”–accidentally saying aloud what you really think–is a masterclass in how the Washington (and transnational) elite think of ordinary people. We are problems to be managed, not individuals, each worthy of respect. Any gestures of concern for our welfare from these people are purely performative. Behind the scenes, we are brushed off as annoyances. 

On the anniversary of 9/11, White House National Security Council communications adviser John Kirby dismissed the concerns of military veterans critical of the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, writing in response to a Fox News Digital press inquiry that there’s “no use” weighing in on the veterans’ views.

“Obviously no use in responding. A ‘handful’ of vets indeed and all of one stripe,” Kirby said in a “reply all” email chain Wednesday afternoon that appeared to be intended for White House staffers, but which also included Fox News Digital. 

Fox News Digital had reached out to the White House earlier Wednesday afternoon regarding critical comments from four veterans, including Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., who blasted Kirby for his Monday press conference that they said provided “cover” for the Biden administration’s 2021 withdrawal.

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Kirby’s response was doubly revealing; critics of Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal–which both Biden and Harris insist was a rousing success, as does Kirby–are not worth responding to, especially because so many of them are Republicans (as are a huge percentage of the military). Who cares about Republicans? Chances are that the military victims at Abbey Gate were Republicans, too, right? 

Who cares? Not John Kirby. Or Joe Biden, who checked his watch as the soldiers came back to America in caskets. Not Kamala Harris, who ignored the memorial for them and criticized Trump for honoring the wishes of their relatives. 

Included in that initial reachout were quotes from the four veterans, and Fox News Digital asked the White House if it had any comment to include on the vets’ blistering criticisms of Kirby and the White House’s handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal. The email chain was forwarded to White House staffers on the National Security Council, before Kirby replied to all on the chain that there’s “no use in responding.”

Kirby’s message was sent in error, with him following up with a Fox News Digital reporter, “Clearly, I didn’t realize you were on the chain.” Kirby sent the email while traveling with President Biden on the anniversary of 9/11.

How on-brand is it that Kirby’s concern–on 9/11 of all days–was for his own reputation? He brushed off the veterans and their families as irrelevant but wanted everyone to know he didn’t want anybody to know that he felt contempt for the suckers and losers who executed the fatal orders that came from the Commander in Chief.  

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Also on-brand is blaming Donald Trump for Biden’s failures, which is the new line coming out of the Biden administration and from Admiral John Kirby’s mouth. It is disgusting, shameful, and pathetic. 

Kirby is the epitome of the REMF–looking after his political future and covering his own ass while tossing others into the meat grinder. He obviously has contempt for the people who put their lives on the line. 

Very Biden/Harris-esque.