From Rick Winston, as shared on Academic Blog, May 5, 2025.

THE TIMES THEY HAVE A-CHANGED

The figures are drawn, the votes will be cast
The poor ones lose more when the budget is passed
The wealth of my friends will be ever more vast
Who cares at the fortune I’m thieving.
FDR’s safety net will be shredded at last,
For the times they have changed past believing.

Come Hegseth and Bondi, well-groomed and well-fed,
I’ll give you a job that’s way over your head,
You’ll both lie to the Senate and lose all your cred
And then use Signal Chat indiscreetly.
I wanted Matt Gaetz, but now Pam’s in his stead,
For the times have changed so completely.

Come all you law firms who filed the wrong suit,
I’ll make you bow down and I’ll gather your loot.
Retribution, I say, and I’m in hot pursuit.
It’s a new world that you’re not conceiving.
Is that legal, you ask, but the point it is moot
For the times they’ve changed past believing.

Come all shithole countries all over the earth
No more programs for you, your lives have no worth
Scientists fired, a cause for more mirth
Since we’ve shut NIH down so neatly.
The new Dark Ages –  We’re seeing their birth,
For the times have changed so completely.

Come all you grad students from faraway lands
Don’t write any op-eds or take any stands.
Soon ICE will arrive, best obey their commands,
For El Salvador jail you’re soon leaving.
Your fate is now in Bukele’s hands,
For the times they have changed past conceiving.

Come artists and writers with a liberal stance
Better save up your money, you’re not getting grants.
Your DEI projects they don’t stand a chance.
Get that racial stuff out, I mean fleetly.
Who cares about music and painting and dance,
For the times they have changed so completely.