The Silence Of DC

Dispatches from the Occupied Zone

Aug 24, 2025

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So this is how it happens: not with a bang or a whimper but with two MRAPs parked theatrically in front of Union Station with their empty turrets pointed at the entrance.

Two large military vehicles parked in the gaps between three flagpoles, each flying the American flag. They're in a brick plaza across the street from something (it's Union Station, but you can't see that from the pic). A green-tarnished copper bell hangs behind them from some kind of steel girder, and there's a square marble piece of statuary behind that. In the distance, some official-looking marble building and green trees

We are neck-deep in the Age of Spectacle and so of course Trump’s DC occupation looks like a scene from some dystopian action flick, complete with ominous clouds and ironic flags waving…

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