Today, I walked 15 blocks from the Gallery Place metro station through Chinatown to the Constitution Avenue site of the Department of Labor. The 1st pictures show what I found there. Everyone will have their own opinion on the giant banner draping the front of the building, but I believe it’s totally un-American. I saw such banners in China, but I never envisioned that I would ever encounter them here.
From there, I walked to the edge of the Capitol grounds and then on to the Flare 24/7 tented protest in front of Union Station, where I spent about an hour chatting with the protesters, many of whom I now know.
On my walk though the station to head home, I discovered the first authoritarian presence of the day — 3 armed National Guard members standing against a wall. I stopped and talked with them a bit, and, as I said before, these guards also struck me as being nice, but so, so young.
Finally, I headed back to Crystal City. When I transferred to the Yellow Line at at Gallery Place I was the only passenger on my car for the 5 stops to my home station. Now Trump can praise the occupation all he wants, but it is definitely having a negative impact on the number of residents and visitors out and about and on the district’s economy.
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