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The Chris Abraham Show

tl:dr: Just a 55-year-old cisgender white male mansplaining his own self-importance. But good. Full Summary: The musings of Chris Abraham as he aspires to know the world and himself while getting healthy, losing weight, becoming fit, and running his small business while living in South Arlington, Virginia. Walk with him a while and see what"s up.

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00:10:33

Borrowed Time: USAID, Bono & The End of America’s...

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/07/01

Foreign aid is dead — long live foreign aid. On July 1st, 2025, the U.S. Agency for International Development — USAID — shut its doors for good. An institution born under Kennedy to be America’s moral halo and Cold War firewall, it fed, healed, and built half the Global South for 60 years. Some say it saved 91 million lives; The Lancet says its closure could mean 14 million more deaths by 2030, a third of them kids. Bush calls that a tragedy. Obama calls it a colossal mistake. Bono writes a poem and

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00:12:49

Theater Kids, Flitty Floofs, and the New Masculinity

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/07/01

We always thought the real cultural coup would come from the ivory tower, the professors, the think tanks. Or maybe from the so-called “gay agenda” — whispered about by people who never once sat cross-legged in a high school hallway while the real conspirators held each other’s faces and wept over a monologue. But the truth is, it was never the tweedy wonks or the closeted cabal that would rewrite how we think about men, sexy, or strong. It was the theater kids — the first to “hold space” before it

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00:10:56

Manufactured Dissent

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/30

How old ghosts, new lines, and our hungry machines keep us replaying the same painSome family stories hum so loudly through the floorboards you never need to tell them out loud. My pop-pop thought he could outrun a ghost when he moved my nana to the end of a dead-end road in Spring Lake, New Jersey — hoping she’d stop drinking if she couldn’t walk to the bar. But the bottle came anyway. The phone line was always there. She’d drink and call people she thought were betraying the family. That’s how

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00:13:15

Poverty Fatigue: America's Moral Math and the Trump Vote

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/30

America’s exhausted — and not just from inflation, rent, or the nine-to-five that turned into a nine-to-nine. There’s another kind of exhaustion we don’t name out loud: the fatigue of paying for people you don’t trust, programs you think don’t work, neighbors you swear game the system.It’s called poverty fatigue. Not the poverty itself — the fatigue of living shoulder-to-shoulder with it, funding it, hearing the stories: the lobster on EBT, the Cadillac Queen, the able-bodied guy who says he’s too

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00:19:20

Be Careful What You Ask For

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/29

Reference Source: NPR Code Switch: Dispatches from the living memory of trans people of colorIdentity, Stealth, and Staying Submarine When the Wolves Come OutI heard a line on Code Switch that stuck with me: “I’m staying in my lane. I can’t speak for you.”This is my lane. I’m not your hero or blueprint. I’m just a man with a few stories — potatoes in a rock soup — about how identity can be sanctuary, then trap, then survival trick when the world turns mean.I first learned what I call the vampire

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00:12:03

The Buddha You Never Saw Is the One Who Saved You

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/27

Enlightenment Isn’t Loud. It Mops Floors.There’s a saying in Zen: “If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.” It sounds violent, but it isn’t. It’s a warning — against false idols, against ego, against brandishing your enlightenment like a badge. Because the real Buddha doesn’t announce himself. He doesn’t post about it. He certainly doesn’t go on speaking tours.The real Buddha might be mopping the floors after the high school prom. She might be your mother, quietly cooking soup for the neighbor

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00:08:50

What Kind of Commie Am I?

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/27

I Am Whatever Kind of Commie Kurt Vonnegut WasAm I a commie? Yes—but not the kind they warned you about. Not the doctrinaire type. Not the utopian. Not the bureaucrat. I don’t want to flatten everyone to the same mediocrity. I don’t want to abolish excellence, or demand purity tests, or see the world through the lens of enforcement and compliance. I believe in decency, not dogma. I believe no one should suffer for being poor. I believe cruelty should never be efficient. I believe dignity is a right,

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00:14:23

Who Paints the Target? Who Points the Spotlight?

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/27

We act like the missiles decide their targets. As if the Hellfire drone strike has free will. But in modern warfare—and in modern narrative warfare—the target isn’t a target until someone paints it.Laser-guided munitions don’t wake up one day and say, “That guy.” They wait. For a signal. A beam. A blinking beacon hidden under the floorboards. The ordnance doesn’t think. It follows.And in our endless info-war of vibes and virality, it’s the same. Redditors, TikTok rage reels, MeidasTouch-style echo

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00:12:20

Beyond the Fascism Checklist, Sweetiepie

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/27

You’ve seen the checklist. It’s been screenshotted, shared, color-coded, made into TikToks, and dropped into Reddit threads like gospel. “The 14 Signs of Fascism,” courtesy of Umberto Eco—saint of academic antifascists and patron thinker of Canva revolutionaries. And if you believe certain corners of the internet, Donald J. Trump has officially collected them all. Congratulations, America: you’ve unlocked the full Fascist Achievement Tree. Time to panic.But here’s the twist. This isn’t new. Trump

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00:16:18

Nudge Me Harder, Mistress

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/26

Sources:Salon: Deliberative democracy: Sounds boring — but it just might save usStanford: Could deliberative democracy depolarize America? Stanford scholars think so"Pedagogy or Programming? The Moral Case for Managed Consensus"Let’s imagine a generous reading of the deliberative democracy project—the one where Fishkin, Diamond, and maybe even Sommer Gentry aren’t scheming puppetmasters in a Stanford-branded lab, but earnest physicians treating a sick body politic.Under this view,

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00:12:11

The Law Isn't Your Mum

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/26

The Supreme Court, the Rolex, and Why the Tallest Poppy Gets CutThere’s a meme making the rounds: a giant dust storm barreling toward a city, its face replaced with that of a fluffy dog. It’s labeled The Supreme Court. The city? A thriving modern society.It’s funny because it’s true. Or at least it feels true, which is how truth works now.But that meme is more than a punchline. It’s a warning. In this country, you don’t get to be 20% loud without provoking 70% backlash. That’s not justice—it’s

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00:11:47

Trump is America's Cold Sore

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/26

Trump Isn’t the Disease—He’s the Cold SoreWhat if the bull in the china shop is just what 70% of the country asked for?I don’t know how “good” Trump is as a legislator. Doesn’t matter. What is real is the immune response he triggered.Millions of Americans who felt cowed—ignored, belittled, scolded—saw in Trump a signal flare. Not because he’s polished or wise. Because he’s not. His chaos mirrors their rage. His vulgarity reflects their exhaustion.Voting for Trump isn’t a policy decision—it’s an act

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00:16:34

The Death of Neutrality in Modern Warfare

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/25

No Medics, No Press, No Mercy: Modern War Doesn’t Believe You Anymore In theory, war has rules: press badges, medics, the Red Cross, the Geneva Conventions. But in practice—on the battlefield, on the street, or online—those protections are myths, not shields. And in 2025, no one in uniform truly believes in neutrality anymore.Whether in Gaza, Fallujah, or downtown Los Angeles, one reality has taken hold:Everyone is a combatant until cleared.Talk to JSOC operators, riot cops, drone pilots, or

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00:17:17

Trump's Spite War and the Empire in Denial

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/24

American Foreign Policy: In Search of Monsters to DestroyHow meme warfare, judicial chokeholds, and moral exhaustion paved a runway straight to TehranDonald Trump is not a shadow lurking at the edge of American democracy. He is the state. The 47th President. Elected—again—not by coup, but through ballots and blood sport. And when, in June 2025, he greenlit the B-2s to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities, it wasn’t rogue adventurism. It was the inevitable outcome of a trapped presidency turned

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00:14:33

America's Perpetual Hunt for Monsters

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/24

America Does Not Go Abroad in Search of Monsters to Destroy — 2025 RemixBy Chris AbrahamA Republic, If You Can Drone ItOriginal 2005 article: America Does Not Go Abroad in Search of Monsters to DestroyJohn Quincy Adams said we don’t go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. But he didn’t live in the age of drone feeds, weaponized hashtags, and TED Talk warfare.In 2025, we still claim the moral high ground. We just occupy it from 30,000 feet—with a payload.We’re told Iran is the monster. Again

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00:13:10

Trump's Spite War

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/22

When Trump Couldn’t Deport, He BombedTariffs blocked. Deportations sandbagged. So he reached for the B‑2s.It’s easy to see Trump’s June 2025 bombing of Iranian nuclear sites as yet another episode of MAGA theater—rage, firepower, and a dramatic “message sent.” But this time, it wasn’t just for show. This was an act of geopolitical spite born from domestic paralysis. Trump, denied the ability to wage his preferred internal war—on undocumented immigrants, on tariffs, on the bureaucracy—chose instead

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00:09:39

Escalation's Inevitable Path

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/22

Trump didn’t come back to bomb Iran. He came back to slap tariffs on China and build a domestic economy around mass deportation. That’s not hyperbole—it’s his vision of American greatness: inward-looking, job-creating, and built on enforcement infrastructure rather than foreign adventurism.He never needed war to stimulate the economy. He needed ICE hiring sprees. He needed biometric tracking. He needed a federal payroll surge to support the logistical nightmare of deporting 20 to 30 million

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00:10:23

America's Israel

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/22

Last night, America sent B-2 bombers into Iranian airspace, dropped massive ordnance, and reasserted a worldview that goes far deeper than current events. While analysts dissect escalation ladders and airbase footage, the real explanation isn’t on a map—it’s in our collective imagination.America doesn’t just support Israel. We identify with it. In our books, films, and foreign policy dreams, Israel is the version of ourselves we secretly admire: smaller, leaner, deadlier. They don’t negotiate first

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00:08:00

The Law's Boomerang: When Protection Becomes Weaponry

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/21

Mahmoud Khalil spent over 100 days locked in a Louisiana detention center. Why? Not for breaking the law, but because the law—designed to protect people like him—was turned against him.He’s a Palestinian grad student, a green card holder, and he led pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University. For that, he was swept up under an obscure Cold War statute originally meant to keep Soviet spies out of the U.S. The government called him a “foreign threat.” He was yanked from his life, his wife, and

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00:10:27

DEI Meets 2A

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/06/21

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion Under the Big-Ass Tent of the Second AmendmentThere’s a quiet but massive shift unfolding in America—one that doesn’t show up in headlines or viral clips, but in the background check logs, the sold-out CCW classes, and the slow, steady boom at local shooting ranges.The people buying guns now don’t fit the old stereotype. They are queer. They are trans. They are women of color. They are immigrants. They are gender-nonconforming, neurodivergent, and very online. Many

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