I was in Washington DC last week for a work trip......

[marmar]

...... it's a city I travel to frequently, and that I love dearly, so to see what this cabal has done to it is galling.

The National Guard is still there, walking around Metro stations and the National monuments, mostly talking to each other and looking at their cellphones. I talked to a guy who said his neighbor was stabbed outside his home and some National Guard members were right there, but all they did was the same thing he did - call 911 - because it's all they're really authorized to do. It's all a show.
The layers of fencing around the White House extend out so far that you can't get anywhere close to it - it's even hard to see it (or the monstrous hole in the ground where the East Wing was).
It was the week before Memorial Day - usually a busy tourism week because of the 8th grade field trips followed by holiday weekend visitors (which you would assume would be even busier because of the 250th celebrations). I reserved a slot at the renovated Air & Space Museum weeks ahead of my trip to make sure I got a slot. When I got there, no lines - I could have scanned the QR and gotten right in.
Visiting some of my favorite neighborhoods - Dupont Circle, U Street Corridor - things were pretty quiet, even on a Friday night. There were plenty of closed restaurants, shuttered storefronts and TONS of vacant office space.
And you could just feel the "vibes". Washingtonians feel like they're living in an occupied colony.