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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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00:22:42

Gaza HUMINT as HUMENT

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/08/02

War, Propaganda, and the Spectacle of SufferingThe war in Gaza is not only fought with drones, tunnels, and rockets; it is fought with cameras. It is fought through livestreams, tweets, and NGO reports. This is no longer HUMINT in the traditional sense. HUMINT—human intelligence—once belonged to the world of spooks, agents, secrets, and whispers. Today, human intelligence is filmed on smartphones, edited for emotional punch, and consumed by millions. It’s no longer intelligence; it’s entertainment

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00:25:10

The Corporate Collaborators

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/07/30

How corporations ally with movements only to drain them, discard them, and return to what they have always beenCorporations often look like allies when social movements rise. They adopt slogans, release campaigns, and revise policies to align with whatever cause dominates the moment. To the public, they appear progressive. To activists, they seem to stand with the movement. But this is not true allyship—it is a survival strategy.Corporations serve one master: capital. Shareholders, financiers, and

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00:41:43

America = Afghanistan

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/07/30

Afghanistan has long been called the “graveyard of empires.” Powerful nations have marched into its mountains with plans to conquer and reform it. They built schools, sent aid, and installed new governments. For a time, the changes seemed to work. Yet each empire—British, Soviet, American—eventually left defeated. Afghanistan absorbed their energy, took what it needed, and when the invaders left, the country reverted to what it had always been.This happens because Afghanistan is built on deep-rooted

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00:30:53

American Cultural Entropy

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/07/30

In physics, entropy measures disorder. Without energy, order breaks down. Culture behaves the same way. Without steady effort, values decay and systems drift back toward what is easy and familiar. This is cultural entropy: the slow pull that undoes progress.Modern anti-racist America often sees its enemy as open hate—racists and extremists. These groups exist but are small. The greater threat is apathy. It is the slow loss of attention and effort. Entropy does not shout. It dissolves gains when

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00:26:13

American Cultural Inertia

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/07/30

In physics, inertia is the tendency of objects to resist change. A body at rest stays at rest unless acted upon by force. Culture works the same way. Societies prefer to stay as they are. They resist change unless energy is applied over time. This resistance is not dramatic. It is quiet, persistent, and hard to overcome. It is cultural inertia.Modern anti-racist America often frames its struggle as a battle against visible hate. Extremists exist, but they are few. The larger obstacle is the mass of

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00:36:20

Mom and Apple Pie are Nazism

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/07/30

The phrase “as American as mom and apple pie” once described something wholesome and unquestioned. It evoked family, community, and tradition. Today, critics recast those same images as coded language for oppression. The cultural consensus of the 1980s and 1990s is no longer neutral. Under the modern lens, it is marked as racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and even fascist. When normal life is reframed as oppressive, nearly everyone outside a narrow ideology is implicated. There is no neutral

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00:28:12

Proxy Wars Evade Accountability

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/07/29

Proxy wars are the modern state’s perfect crime. They allow powerful nations to pursue strategic goals without the domestic consequences that traditionally forced wars to end. During Vietnam, American soldiers died in large numbers. Draft notices landed in every community, and the war’s human cost was unavoidable. Protests carried weight because every household had skin in the game. My mother marched against that war with me still in her belly, and the United States eventually left because the

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00:23:20

The Tyranny of "Should Be the Norm"

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/07/29

“Should be the norm” doesn’t really mean anything in the real world, though, does it? People say it as if declaring it makes it true, as if a strong enough moral proclamation could bend the arc of reality. But the world doesn’t bend to what should be. It bends to what’s believed by enough people to fight for it, enforce it, and pass it down. Norms are not natural laws—they are contested, fragile, and always under siege.Here’s what most forget: maybe 70% to 80% of any society has entirely different

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00:33:28

The Day Jesus Got Heckled

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/07/27

For most of my life, I thought I knew Jesus. My image of Him came from pop Catholicism, Easter sermons, and Hollywood movies where He looked untouchable, glowing, and serenely above it all. I imagined Him like Superman in sandals, tossing miracles around as easily as a magician pulls rabbits from a hat. He seemed immune to doubt, unaffected by the atmosphere around Him. But after a year of listening daily to the Gospels on the Hallow app, I started meeting a very different Jesus: a Jesus who is

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00:28:43

Session Fourteen: The Angel in the Abbey

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/07/26

After surviving the werewolf ambush on the Old Svalich Road, the adventurers reached Kresk, the last settlement before the mists swallow the valley. The guards at the gate opened only when they saw the Martikovs’ wagon of wine. But their allies’ patience was thin; the severed head of Henrik, the coffin maker, and the party’s haggling over wine had soured trust. One barrel was given to Burgomaster Dmitri Krezkov. He warmed slightly, explaining Kresk survived by not provoking Strahd. He offered one

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00:35:08

Why I Joined Meritus Media

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/07/24

Meritus Media isn’t just another digital agency. It’s not a growth hack lab, a content mill, or a stitched-together team of Upwork freelancers. It’s a convergence—a rare blend of what still works, what used to work, and what should work when it comes to visibility, credibility, and influence.That’s why I joined.It’s why I stepped behind the Meritus shield—why I aligned my decades of SEO, ORM, and digital strategy experience with a crew led by Mike Falkow and built on the legacy of Sally Falkow.A

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00:24:46

Order Lobster, Make 'Em Pay

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/07/22

There was a time when being a member of the ACLU meant defending the speech of people you despised—not because you endorsed them, but because the principle of liberty mattered more than comfort. I joined for that reason. I wasn’t virtue signaling. I was pledging allegiance to the Constitution, the real one—not the cosplay version people wave when it suits them.Now? The ACLU defends speech selectively. The Human Rights Campaign operates more like a branding arm of one political party. And free

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00:12:57

The Tortoise and the Hare

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/07/20

The Tortoise and the Hare: How Strategic Patience Lets Conservatives Win While Progressives Burn OutIn the culture war, it’s not ideology that wins. It’s tempo. Progressives operate in existential now-or-never mode. Conservatives move like tectonic plates. One sprints. The other strategizes. One demands transformation overnight. The other sits silently, waiting for the overreach—and then strikes.Progressives are the hare. They lurch forward, propelled by urgency. Climate catastrophe. Trans suicide

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00:10:26

The Gold Rush of Deportation

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/07/20

This is not just another crackdown. It’s not even just another culture war. It’s a full-spectrum economic and psychological operation, aimed not only at the undocumented population but also at America’s industrial stagnation, its working-class despair, and its hunger for purpose. With no global war to stimulate GDP and no appetite for new foreign interventions, the Trump administration has reverse-engineered the forever war—on American soil. Not to export democracy, but to deport illegals. And in

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00:13:46

How NPR and Public Media Lost Me

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/07/19

I was born in 1970—the same cultural moment, almost to the year, that NPR emerged. My parents were daily drinkers and secular humanists who raised me in Hawaii with Carl Sagan, PBS, and an FM radio dialed to All Things Considered. Garrison Keillor. Click and Clack. Terry Gross. Diane Rehm. Kojo Nnamdi. This wasn’t politics—it was affection. NPR was calm, elite, literary, but with warmth. A sherry-glass liberalism. A voice that loved America while nudging it gently forward.For decades I was the

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00:10:02

Deportation Industrial Complex

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/07/18

At first glance, the idea of deporting 30 million undocumented immigrants sounds logistically absurd. It seems politically suicidal, morally grotesque, and economically unviable. And that’s precisely the point. For years, the unspoken strategy among progressive immigration advocates and Democratic administrations has been to overwhelm the system. The assumption was simple: if you allow enough people in, undercut enforcement, delay asylum proceedings, and stretch ICE past the breaking point, the

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00:09:51

Opt-In Apartheid

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/07/18

We talk a lot about racism in America, but what we’re really contending with today isn’t just race—it’s culture. It’s not about the color of your skin, but the code you speak. Not the blood in your veins, but the dialect on your tongue. It’s not whiteness that gets punished—it’s acting white. It’s not blackness that’s rejected—it’s betraying the culture. This is not racism. This is cultural apartheid.I learned this growing up in Hawaii, where being a haole (white) wasn’t the problem—it was acting

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00:10:11

Poi Dogs and Purity Tests

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/07/18

I didn’t plan to write this. It started with a Thread, sparked by a conversation with someone who spoke as if identity was destiny, and belonging was determined by pain. They spoke in the voice of certainty—about who could speak, who couldn’t, and who owed what to whom.But it stirred something old in me.I grew up in Salt Lake, Oahu. Subsidized garden apartments near the airport. I was six. A haole kid—Irish, English, German, Czechoslovakian, Hungarian—surrounded by friends who were Japanese, Korean,

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00:09:25

In Praise of Cowardice

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/07/17

There’s a power in holding your tongue. A dignity in not showing your hand. We live in an age that mistakes visibility for virtue and volume for valor. But cowardice—real, deliberate, strategic cowardice—is not a moral failure. It’s a tactical doctrine. It’s not for the meek. It’s for those who understand the cost of every movement, every word, every unnecessary war.“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war.”— Sun TzuBravery is the charge. Cowardice is the calculus. It’s the art of surviving

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00:11:52

Red Hat, Red Herring

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/07/17

Why the base isn't breaking, the scandal doesn't land, and the real crisis is still being misunderstood.A viral tweet claimed the beginning of the end — 67% of Americans, including half of Republicans, allegedly believe Donald Trump is covering up Epstein evidence. The replies were predictable: “The cult is cracking.” “They’ve finally seen the truth.” “Dumpster fire!” And yet none of it rings true. These aren’t signs of collapse. They’re symptoms of projection — projection from people who

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