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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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00:49:13

The Fall of Sören Ironwood in Vallaki

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/08/27

Introduction: Welcome back! This week, we recount a grim session from our Barovia campaign, where "even divine wings rot into bone, and the only victories are measured by who escapes alive". Barovia, the "cursed valley" from Curse of Strahd, has "no patience for heroes," a truth cruelly reinforced in Vallaki (Vuh-LOK-kee), a city that "devours outsiders".Vallaki: A City Under Martial Law: Once Barovia's "only semi-safe haven," Vallaki is now

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00:07:51

The Vallaki Heresy and Sören Ironwood's Fall

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/08/27

This article, "Session Sixteen: Vallaki Heresy and the Fall of Sören Ironwood," details a pivotal moment in a Dungeons & Dragons campaign set in Barovia, a perilous land governed by the vampire Strahd. The narrative follows a trio of adventurers—Sören the Aasimar Paladin, Radley the Human Eldritch Knight, and Traxidor the Half-elf Cleric—as they navigate the treacherous, martial-law-controlled city of Vallaki. Their mission to retrieve a wedding dress takes a dark turn when Sören is

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00:07:32

How the West Ignited the Ukraine War

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/08/20

The provided text argues against the widely accepted narrative that Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked. It asserts that Western actions, particularly NATO's eastward expansion and interference in Ukrainian politics, served as long-term provocations. The author cites warnings from figures like George Kennan and William Burns, alongside Vladimir Putin's own statements, highlighting Russia's consistent opposition to these moves. Furthermore, the text suggests that the 2014

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00:21:13

The West Lit the Fuse in Ukraine

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/08/20

The story we’ve been told is simple: in February 2022, Vladimir Putin woke up one morning, decided to invade a peaceful, democratic Ukraine, and launched an “unprovoked war.” That’s the official narrative. But history is never that simple.From the 1990s onward, Moscow warned that NATO expansion into its backyard was a red line. Gorbachev and later Yeltsin were assured that the alliance would not creep eastward. Yet step by step—Poland, Hungary, the Baltics, talk of Georgia and Ukraine—NATO advanced

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00:29:05

Blame the Latte

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/08/16

Don’t Blame the Latte: Your Burn Rate Is Eating You AliveThe Silent Reason You’re Always BrokeThere’s a meme that won’t die: “Don’t blame me for my daily latte—it’s not why I can’t afford a house in America.” But here’s the rub: it isn’t the latte by itself. It’s the latte plus the Starbucks sandwich, the DoorDash dinner, the Amazon Prime, the Netflix, the Disney+, the YouTube TV, the Hulu, the gym membership you never use, the $1,200 phone you upgrade every two years, the Uber rides, the

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00:05:43

The High Cost of Normal

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/08/16

Your Burn Rate ProblemThe provided text, "Your Daily Latte Won't Buy You a House — But Your Burn Rate Will Keep You Broke," argues that individual spending habits, labeled "burn rate," are the primary obstacle to financial stability and wealth building, rather than small discretionary purchases like a daily latte. The author contends that many Americans have adopted an unrealistically expensive "normal" lifestyle encompassing numerous subscriptions, frequent food

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00:22:09

How America Sands Down Rebellion

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/08/16

America doesn’t crush its radicals—it deburrs them. Like a machinist running a grinder over sharp metal, the state and culture don’t always smash rebellion outright. Instead, they smooth its edges until it no longer cuts. This is how dissent is turned into fashion, slogans into branding, and movements into memories.Think about the radicals of the 1960s. The Black Panthers, the Weather Underground, even SDS—groups that once terrified middle America. Within a generation, the Panthers’ leather jackets

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00:07:20

Deburring Radicals into Hegemony's Mascots

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/08/16

The provided text explores how hegemony neutralizes revolutionary figures and movements by "deburring" them, transforming dangerous ideals into harmless, commercialized symbols. It explains that instead of outright crushing dissent, the system often rebrands revolutionaries like Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Che Guevara, emphasizing palatable aspects while erasing their more radical or threatening messages. This process extends to religious figures such as Francis of Assisi and

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00:27:22

How America Grinds Difference Into Flavor

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/08/16

America calls it pluralism, but too often it feels like something else entirely. What looks and feels like racism or cultural hostility is frequently the machinery of assimilation doing its work: the endless sanding down of edges until difference is smoothed into something palatable for the hegemon. America doesn’t usually admit this outright, but it has always been the deal. The promise of pluralism was never truly “come here and be yourself.” It was “come here and add your spice to the stew — but

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00:07:08

America's Assimilation Machine

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/08/16

The provided text critiques the American concept of pluralism, arguing that it functions as a hegemonic assimilation process rather than genuine co-existence of cultures. It suggests that while outwardly appearing to embrace diversity, America metaphorically "sands down" cultural differences until they are merely superficial "flavor" added to a dominant "American" base. The author contends that what is often labeled "racism" is, in fact, this persistent

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00:34:12

A Chicken in the Pot to the Kardashians

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/08/16

Once the dream was a chicken in every pot and a car in the driveway. Today it’s Kardashians, crypto, and curated excess—fantasies without a staircase.The American Dream used to be modest, and that was its strength. A chicken in every pot, a house in the suburbs, a car in the garage, kids who might do a little better than their parents. It wasn’t glamorous, but it was believable. A ladder you could climb rung by rung: steady work, a paid-off mortgage, kids who graduated without a lifetime of

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00:07:10

The Dream Without a Ladder

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/08/16

The provided text explores how the concept of the American Dream has transformed from a modest, achievable ideal to an unattainable fantasy. Historically, the dream involved realistic goals like homeownership and financial stability, symbolized by the phrase "a chicken in every pot," which connoted dignity and modest comfort. However, the source argues that economic shifts and the rise of social media have distorted this vision, promoting extravagant wealth as the standard of success

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00:21:36

Trump's Second Term Purge

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/08/15

Donald Trump’s first term in office felt, to many, like a burst of cultural backlash—loud, brash, and ultimately blunted. He entered Washington in 2017 promising to “drain the swamp,” but underestimated how deep and tangled the roots ran. The permanent bureaucracy, the NGO network, and the sprawling infrastructure of media-linked soft power endured. By the time Joe Biden took office in 2021, the so-called “intercom” —the elite feedback loop of agencies, think tanks, activist nonprofits, and friendly

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00:06:44

Trump's Second Term Purge [Video]

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/08/15

The provided text, "Cutting Out the Rot," discusses a hypothetical second term for Donald J. Trump, focusing on his alleged intent to enact a widespread purge of federal agencies and institutions. The author suggests that unlike his first term, where he merely "shouted at the choir," this time Trump would employ a "scorched-earth doctrine" to dismantle what he perceives as an "Intercom" of entrenched opposition within the government. This includes mass

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00:38:13

America's Cultural Reversion

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/08/15

When the small, elite definition of “democracy” stopped being the country’s default — and the silent majority decided not to play along anymore.For decades, a narrow, elite version of American “democracy” was exported abroad like a finished product — shiny, packaged, market-tested. At home, it trickled into schools, universities, media, and HR manuals without much pushback, because for 80 to 95 percent of Americans, it didn’t touch the parts of life they cared about most: their homes, churches,

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00:06:37

America's Cultural Reversion [VIDEO]

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/08/15

The provided text, "America’s Cultural Reversion," argues that recent rapid cultural shifts, driven by a self-anointed elite, have created a whiplash effect leading to a backlash from "the eighty percent" of America. This coalition of "strange bedfellows" is united not by shared ideology but by shared disgust with the pace and direction of cultural change, viewing it as a "hostile takeover" rather than organic absorption. While this "mutiny" has

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00:20:48

Trump's DC Cleanup Coup

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/08/13

TL;DR: When Gavin Newsom sweeps San Francisco’s streets for an international summit, the press frames it as pragmatic urban stewardship. When Donald Trump orders a similar crackdown in Washington, D.C., it’s cast as an authoritarian takeover. The cleanup looks the same; the narrative is worlds apart.In November 2023, Governor Gavin Newsom admitted plainly that San Francisco’s sudden transformation—tent encampments gone, streets power-washed, graffiti scrubbed—was tied directly to hosting President

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00:05:42

Trump's Broom Coup (VIDEO)

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/08/13

The provided text examines how the media and public perception frame similar actions differently based on the individual performing them. It highlights the contrast between Governor Gavin Newsom's San Francisco cleanup for a diplomatic summit, which was largely praised as "civic pride" or "savvy staging," and Donald Trump's hypothetical cleanup of Washington D.C., which the text suggests would be cast as "authoritarian overreach" or a "coup." The

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00:05:21

The Media Hypocrisy of Trump's Takeover of DC (Video)

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/08/13

The provided text examines how media framing influences public perception of similar governmental actions, even when the operational realities are alike. It highlights a contrast in coverage between California Governor Gavin Newsom’s “cosmetic sweep” of San Francisco for an international summit and former President Donald Trump’s federalization of Washington D.C.'s police, which was framed as either a "war on violent crime" or an "authoritarian occupation." The author argues

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00:30:46

Trump’s Armed DC Makeover

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/08/13

In early 2025, Washington, D.C., became the stage for a dramatic federal intervention. President Donald Trump placed the city’s police department under federal control, deployed the National Guard, and ordered a sweeping crackdown on what he called “chaos.” For some, this meant confronting violent crime; for others, it was a broad campaign against visible disorder — tents under overpasses, graffiti-stained walls, groups loitering in public spaces.The move split opinion instantly. Supporters cast it

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