So, how was your No Kings day? Mine was the opposite of cringe, a powerful riposte to that festival of geezer, commie, and mutant onanism that sent a tingle down the collective leg of those who hate both America and all those struggling to make it great again. The Vice-President’s communication staff invited me to follow him around on October 18th for Townhall when he came to Camp Pendleton to celebrate the Marine Corps’ 250th anniversary. Instead of America’s worst—we should have held a counter-protest called “No Dinguses”—I watched America’s best mixing and mingling with America’s next president.

The Veep did not make any major news or announce any policy changes. He just doubled down on what the Trump administration is all about—greatness —and that meant interacting with great Americans. I don’t need to build up the Marine Corps’ collective ego. That’s like feeding J.B. Pritzker more to make him fatter; it’s hard to do, but they’re happy to try. But the fact is – as the Veep (a former lance corporal who is now getting salutes from four-stars) observed to the audience of about 15,000 troops and families – the Marine Corps fought the trends of wokeness and remains the Marine Corps. The rest of the Pentagon allowed itself to be degraded into a woke nightmare of bulging waistlines, perversions, incompetence, and politicization, while all the Marines want to do is kill America’s enemies. These are tough, mean little guys. Jesse Kelly aside, Marines are generally tiny and wiry. This gave me great hope for the future, because the future is going to involve killing bad people, and it’s nice to know we’ve got folks eager to do it.

A quick aside: Don’t take that as a diss on my beloved Army. The Marines are unparalleled door-kickers with amazing amphibious capabilities that they showed off to their famous alum on Camp Pendleton’s Red beach. Still, the Army remains the decisive land combat force because it’s so big and it just bludgeons the enemy to death. Think “Hulk smash.” But there’s something about the Marines and their instinctive skill at public relations. From the Vice President to the Secretary of War to a bunch of lesser dignitaries, it was nonstop........

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