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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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00:06:51

Cities, Money, and the Great Escape

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/11/07

Imagine watching a pot of water with frogs in it. The city adds a little heat — higher taxes, new regulations, moral lectures — and waits to see what happens. At first, nothing. The frogs get used to it. Then one day the temperature crosses a line, and they jump. That’s how modern economies lose their wealth. Not with protests, not with revolutions — but with relocation.In the past, money was trapped. Rockefeller couldn’t just move Standard Oil to Singapore. The state had leverage. That’s why we

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00:59:15

The Age of Portable Money

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/11/07

I’ve been thinking a lot about how money moves — and how we still talk about it as if it doesn’t. It all started with a TikTok comment. Somebody asked, “When have rich people ever moved to avoid taxes?” I typed back a few examples — Eduardo Saverin to Singapore, the French actor Gérard Depardieu to Belgium, the wave of Californians to Texas — and before I knew it, I was deep in the rabbit hole of what economists call capital flight.It’s the quiet migration that rewires everything. Cities still

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00:06:44

Rumspringa for the Republic

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/11/06

Every now and then, America drags its elites out of the faculty lounge and into the street fair. It doesn’t matter if the excuse is a war, a crisis, or—this time—the 250th birthday of the country. Eventually, the people who think they’re running the story are reminded that they’re just living in it. That’s what’s happening now: the same class that spent a decade deconstructing the flag is being told to wave it. The same pundits who said “America was never great” are now workshopping how to make

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01:13:45

The Republic Always Wins

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/11/06

Every few generations, America forgets how to argue and starts to dance instead. This time the excuse is the 250th birthday — the Semiquincentennial, a word that sounds like it was cooked up by a government subcommittee. But behind the bureaucratic branding, something strange is happening. The same cultural class that once rolled its eyes at patriotism is now rediscovering flags, fireworks, and the word “Republic.” The same people who called the Founders colonizers are suddenly quoting them. It’s as

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00:07:12

VIDEO: YOU BECOME WHAT YOU PRETEND TO BE

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/11/02

“You become what you pretend to be, so be careful what you pretend to be.” — Jean-Paul SartreIn The Great Patriotic Heist, I argued that the American Left has begun performing patriotism — not feeling it, performing it. The same institutions that once mocked the flag now wrap themselves in it, speaking solemnly about “our Republic” and “the unfinished promise of 1776.” It’s not rediscovered affection — it’s narrative survival. The populist Right took the flag hostage, so the only way to reclaim it

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01:14:10

AUDIO: YOU BECOME WHAT YOU PRETEND TO BE

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/11/02

“You become what you pretend to be, so be careful what you pretend to be.” — Jean-Paul SartreIn The Great Patriotic Heist, I argued that the American Left has begun performing patriotism — waving flags, quoting Jefferson, rediscovering “our Republic” — not from love of country but from narrative panic. The populist Right had taken ownership of rebellion, freedom, and 1776’s mythic energy, leaving progressives with a choice: mock it or mimic it. They chose mimicry. My warning then was that

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01:00:30

The Great Patriotic Heist — Uncut Audio Symposium

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/10/26

This immersive, long-form audio edition gathers every commentary, Notebook LM segment, stitched reaction, and post-production note from The Great Patriotic Heist project. Think of it as part documentary, part Socratic salon: a living conversation about how America swung—from self-flagellation to flag-waving—in less than two years.Across two hours of unfiltered discussion, analysts, AI narrators, and invited voices trace the strange metamorphosis of the American Left’s rhetoric. We rewind to the

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00:06:18

The Great Patriotic Heist — Visual Briefing: How...

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/10/26

This episode is a visual-audio walk-through of the Notebook LM “deck” for The Great Patriotic Heist — a multimedia explainer on how America’s political left abruptly rediscovered the flag. In 1976 the Bicentennial turned Main Street into a Norman Rockwell carnival of belief. In 2026, the same symbols are being curated from boardrooms and NGOs as marketing assets. The presentation moves through five scenes:1️⃣ Whiplash Patriotism — from “colonizer nation” to “USA! USA!” in 18 months.2️⃣ The Heist

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00:58:21

The Mausoleum with Wi-Fi: A Letter to My Optimist Friend

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/10/12

Hey Jason,First, thank you. Your reply to America = Afghanistan was what debate used to be — informed, generous, and disarmingly human. You didn’t just argue; you elevated. You said America isn’t a graveyard of movements but a battleground that keeps evolving. That progress doesn’t die, it sediments — layering itself into law, language, and culture. And you’re right, at least partly.My essay argued that Afghanistan defeats empires not through power, but patience. It takes their money, their systems,

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00:07:18

Dear Jason: On Compost, Graveyards, and the Hungry...

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/10/12

Hey Jason,First, thank you. Your reply to America = Afghanistan was what debate used to be — informed, generous, and disarmingly human. You didn’t just argue; you elevated. You said America isn’t a graveyard of movements but a battleground that keeps evolving. That progress doesn’t die, it sediments — layering itself into law, language, and culture. And you’re right, at least partly.My essay argued that Afghanistan defeats empires not through power, but patience. It takes their money, their systems,

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00:07:06

Ashes of Vallaki, Light of Krezk

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/10/06

Each victory in Barovia costs a soul. Sometimes, it’s your own.The party’s story in these twin sessions begins in ash and ends in resurrection. After the execution of Traxidor, his companions refused to leave his body on display in Vallaki’s square. Lady Wachter had expected their sentimentality. When they came for him, she unleashed hell.Literally.A Barbed Devil pursued them through Vallaki’s backstreets, flanked by smaller spined fiends that shrieked from above. Radley carried Traxidor’s corpse,

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00:49:38

The Devil, the Saint, and the Dragon

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/10/06

In Barovia, every escape leads to another trial. Salvation, when it comes, is never free.The night after the gallows of Vallaki, the survivors of the party—Radley, Daermon, and Urihorn—refused to abandon the body of their fallen cleric, Traxidor. His corpse hung publicly as a warning, a final cruelty from Lady Fiona Wachter. When the adventurers slipped through alleys to steal it back, they walked straight into her trap. The air split with screams and sulfur as a Barbed Devil burst from the mist,

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00:06:39

The Three Faces of Fascism in America

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/10/02

Fascism, Normies, and the Generational Divide“Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.” Or as I like to say, your ability to put up with a problem is your distance from it.If you’re over 40, you probably think fascism means Mussolini’s Italy or Hitler’s Germany — a corporatist system where state and business fused into a one-party authoritarian project. That’s the old poli-sci definition I learned back at GWU in 1988.But ask someone under 40 and you’ll get a

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00:59:53

Fascism, Normies, and the Generational Divide

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/10/02

“Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.” Or as I like to say, your ability to put up with a problem is your distance from it.If you’re over 40, you probably think fascism means Mussolini’s Italy or Hitler’s Germany — a corporatist system where state and business fused into a one-party authoritarian project. That’s the old poli-sci definition I learned back at GWU in 1988.But ask someone under 40 and you’ll get a different answer. For them, “fascism” covers almost

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00:07:30

Charlie Kirk Blasting Cap Chain Reactions

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/09/21

The killing of Charlie Kirk in Utah this September didn’t just extinguish the life of a polarizing activist. It set off a cascade — an implosion in the civic square whose blast radius is still expanding. To make sense of it, we should borrow metaphors not from politics but from physics and history: Sarajevo, Versailles, Oppenheimer.A nuclear bomb is not powered by TNT. It’s powered by the precision of small charges — explosive lenses — that compress a fragile core until it becomes supercritical. A

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00:53:57

The Assassination of Charlie Kirk and the Detonation...

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/09/21

Charlie Kirk’s murder on a Utah stage in September 2025 was not just another grim entry in the catalog of American political violence. It was a detonation — the moment when a single blasting cap set off a chain reaction that no one could fully control. To understand it, we need less the vocabulary of day-to-day politics and more the physics of escalation.In a nuclear weapon, you don’t need much fissile material to create an unimaginable blast. What you need are precisely shaped conventional charges

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00:06:35

Ugly Words, Dangerous Fires

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/09/21

Why protecting even offensive words is the only way to prevent violenceBy Chris Abraham for SubstackEvery generation rediscovers an old lesson the hard way: words are not bullets, but if you confuse them long enough, bullets eventually appear.Lately I’ve been struck by how quickly our civic conversations move from irritation to punishment. A clumsy remark or ugly slogan goes viral; the mob mobilizes; firings and cancellations follow. It’s tempting to say “well, that’s accountability,” but the speed

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01:02:15

Hate Speech, Free Speech, and the Ladder of Escalation

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/09/21

How history, law, and theology warn us against turning words into weaponsBy Chris Abraham for SubstackSome mornings I surprise myself. I wake with the smell of coffee in the apartment, the building still quiet, and realize I’ve become a proselytizer for an old story. Not long ago, I argued about anchor text or attribution models. Now, I listen to daily Gospel readings on Hallow, sit with Jeff Cavins’ reflections, and quote John and Luke in comment threads. Nobody in my circle would have bet on this

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00:06:36

A Cleric's Corpse and Barbed Devils

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/09/20

The provided text is an excerpt from a Tabletop Role-Playing Game (TTRPG) session log detailing the exploits of a group of adventurers. Specifically, it documents Session Nineteen of a campaign, outlining the players involved and the characters they control: Urihorn, Radley, and Daermon. The narrative begins with the characters hiding in a cellar after a failed attempt to rescue their executed comrade, Traxidor, from the Burgomistress, Lady Fiona Wachter. The party successfully retrieves

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00:59:59

Session Nineteen: Devils in the Mist and Wachter’s...

The Chris Abraham Show ·

2025/09/20

The adventurers began this session crammed into the cellar of a decrepit Vallaki house, hidden by the wereraven Dannika Martikov after their chaotic escape from the gallows. Radley Fullthorn, the Human Eldritch Knight, and Daermon Cobain, the Elf Arcane Trickster, were unconscious, dragged to safety by allies while Urihorn Tenpenny, the Halfling Beastmaster, and his panther kept watch. Above, Wachter’s patrols rattled doors and questioned villagers, searching for fugitives.When Radley and Daermon

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