December 2025 – education and deconstruction.com

Trump’s Brain Is Hazy – BONUS POST

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It’s politics and business as usual in this slow-news-period holiday season. Here’s a ditty about that.

TRUMP’S BRAIN IS HAZY

sung to the tune of “Luck Be A Lady” with apologies to Estates of Frank Loesser, Frank Sinatra and to whomever else the rights may concern.

They should call out hazy Trump. There’s no room for doubt.

All times he has a very shady-like way of cutting out.

He dominates the GOP. His profiteering has been lush.

And yet, before his term is over, his brain is total mush.

He’s mute on serious matters, xenophobic he stays.

And so his foes just hope, he goes away.

Trump’s brain is hazy alright. Trump’s brain is hazy alright.

Trump’s brain was always lazy to begin with. Trump’s brain is hazy alright.

Trump owns militaRIES.

He’s like Soviets and Chinese.

He’s fronted by the gun-loving guys he’s been with.

Trump’s shady with his GOP.

Hegseth and Musk are Trump’s escorts.

Where’s healthCARE? The deficit’s not NICE.

Trump’s charade is distracting, delaying his doom,

as he sops up AI software’s adVICE.

He hardly keeps his party polite.

They’re never out of his sight.

They’re stuck with him lately. They’re mutually dependent.

Trump’s a charade tonight.

Trump owns militaRIES.

He’s like Soviets and Chinese.

He’s fronted by the gun-loving guys he’s been with.

Trump’s shady with his GOP.

Hegseth and Musk are Trump’s escorts.

Where’s healthCARE? The deficit’s not NICE.

Trump’s charade is distracting, delaying his doom,

as he sops up AI software’s adVICE.

He hardly keeps his party polite.

They’re never out of his sight.

They’re stuck with him lately. They’re mutually dependent.

Trump’s a charade, Trump’s a charade, where’s the 25th Amendment tonight?

Our Gang

The Book of the Week is “Our Gang (Starring Tricky Dick and His Friends)” by Philip Roth, published in 1971.

A satire of the Nixon administration, this was also a book-long rant. Major aspects of the then-political situation are so familiar now. There was an inflammatory passage of Nixon’s dim view of wounded veterans. Trump has taken a dim view of prisoners-of-war. The author wrote what Nixon was really thinking, about various crises he either exacerbated, or brought on himself.

Of all the presidents, Nixon and Reagan were the ones from whom Trump has copied the most. The author claimed Nixon said, “We’ve had foul language, we’ve had the cynicism, we’ve had the masochism and the breast-beating– maybe a big dose of innocence is just what this country needs to be great again.”

No American leader has been innocent, but Carter came close. Nixon’s war crimes were many times more evil than the repeated financial and more-likely-than-not sex crimes Trump has committed.

Deaths directly caused by Nixon’s war criminality cannot be reversed. Trump’s breakage of the American legal system can be reversed, over the next few decades.

But the repetition of Trump’s protestations of innocence have: 1) played a part in convincing some Americans that he’s the victim of witch hunts, and 2) desensitized others into acceptance of reality– quiet desperation over his overwhelming power and influence until his name fades from public memory.

Nevertheless, the author harps on Nixon’s thoughts regarding the anti-war protesters on his enemies list. Nixon called the protesters, “Boy Scouts” (perhaps for irony) but Trump spares no expletives in his labeling of anti-ICE protesters.

The author described Nixon’s method. The president received advice from a legal coach, a highbrow coach, and a military coach– on the three major crimes allegedly committed by the Boy Scouts: inciting to riot, tampering with the morals of minors, and corrupting the youth of the nation.

Then the gang came up with a short-list of people and groups to blame for the unrest: Hanoi, The Berrigans (religious brothers who influenced others to practice pacifism), The Black Panthers, Jane Fonda, and Curt Flood (a baseball player who sued MLB for racial discrimination). Trump has also smeared and retaliated against an endless number of scapegoats in his political career.

Nixon explained how he distracted Americans from his avoidance of addressing the nation’s serious problems. “It never fails– every time they start marching on Washington, I’m the one who has to leave town. Now does that make any sense to you? I’m the President…” Trump does the same thing, and furthers his profiteering, too.

Read the book to learn much more about Nixon’s take on previous administrations, and other dirty tricks in his play book.

Legal Bills Suck- BONUS POST

Trump has been the most litigious president in American history. Here’s a little holiday ditty about this.

LEGAL BILLS SUCK

sung to the tune of “Jingle Bell Rock” with apologies to Estate of Bobby Helms and to whomever else the rights may concern.

Legal bills, legal bills, legal bills suck.

Legal bills bring a deficit sting.

Trump’s suing and blowing taxpayer funds.

Now the legal bills weigh a ton.

Legal bills, legal bills, legal bills suck.

Legal bills’ times,

add up and climb.

Trump’s suing and screwing, taxpayers, here.

These are costly years.

What a frightening time,

it’s the Right’s crime,

to suck our wealth away.

GOP time is a swell time

to blame Biden in infinite ways.

Hurry up, judges, courts–reject tariffs complete,

or Trump will pass the buck.

We’ll fix his tricks so the poor can eat.

Trump’s legal bills suck.

Legal bills, legal bills, legal bills suck.

Legal bills’ times,

add up and climb.

Trump’s suing and screwing, taxpayers, here.

These are costly years.

What a frightening time,

it’s the Right’s crime,

to suck our wealth away.

GOP time is a swell time

to blame Biden in infinite ways.

Hurry up, judges, courts–reject tariffs complete,

or Trump will pass the buck.

We’ll fix his tricks so the poor can eat.

Trump’s legal bills, Trump’s legal bills, Trump’s legal bills suck.

Far From Home

The Book of the Week is “Far From Home, An Alaskan Senator Faces the Extreme Climate of Washington, D.C.” by Lisa Murkowski with Charles Wohlforth, published in 2025.

Murkowski was born in 1957 in Alaska. Since the federal government owns more than thirty percent of Alaska, its policies play a large role in the state’s economy and well-being. More than a quarter of the land is owned by the state government; a little more than a tenth—by corporations owned by Native Americans, who comprise about seventeen percent of Alaska’s population.

Alaska has more than two hundred rural villages, and, as of the book’s writing, some still had the living standards of a Third-World country—no indoor plumbing, no electricity, no paved roads. It is quite cumbersome, time-consuming and expensive for politicians to make campaign visits to those villages, via a few different planes, boats or cars. Murkowski, a moderate Republican U.S. senator who votes pursuant to her conscience, not the Party line, takes the time and trouble to meet her fellow residents, because she passionately cares about them.

“White people in Washington were a substantial minority but they had created a kind of bubble of affluence, an apartheid in which they didn’t have to interact with people of color and could willfully ignore their own prejudice.” Murkowski (who is herself white) found that out when her sons (also white) were on a Virginia soccer team with diverse members. White parents cheering on their kids, spewed the most offensive slurs, but they didn’t consider themselves detestable creatures. They still considered themselves good people.

Other adults behaved badly, too. In the single-digit 2000’s, in Washington, D.C., prosecutors in the Justice Department put oil-industry lobbyist Bill Allen on trial for corruption, but suppressed evidence that allowed Allen to go free, and at the same time, ruined the reputation of the wrongly accused late Senator Ted Stevens, Republican from Alaska. The moral of the story can be summed up in two cliches, “A man is known by the company he keeps” and “When you lie down with dogs, you get fleas.” Stevens knew that Allen was “bad news” but allied with him, anyway.

In the early single-digit 2000’s, when Murkowski was running for reelection, she lost the primary to yet another sleazy piece-of-work of an alleged grownup. However, her father impressed upon her the fact that, as his daughter, she should never give up! So she continued her campaign as a write-in candidate. Her victory would thus be extremely unlikely. Nonetheless, Murkowski’s cousin took particular delight in posting the opposing candidate’s sordid, hypocritical history on social media, and journalists picked up on it. An opposition research firm gave her free publicity by also doing the same.

Read the book to learn much more about Murkowski’s life experiences that led her to end up in the U.S. Senate, and the trials, tribulations and triumphs in her career.

Do You Know What I’ve Done – BONUS POST

This is what Trump was singing when his thinking was lucid.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT I’VE DONE FOR THE USA?

sung to the tune of “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” with apologies to Dionne Warwick and to whomever else the rights may concern.

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Do you know what I’ve done for the USA?

I’ve been prez so long. I did it right, I again made us great.

Do you know what I’ve done for the USA?

I’ve given us all peace of mind in the USA.

My beautiful bill is a great big giveaway.

I put illegals down and raised the bar.

In all my years, I’ve always been a star.

I made world peace. How great is that?

And all those losers, who never-were,

can get their funds cut-off and kiss my ass.

Criminals make me seethe in the USA.

We’re going to conquer space.

The White HOUSE is where I’ll stay.

I was born and raised in the USA.

I sent bad people away from the USA.

Fame and fortune, I’ve achieved in my life.

I’ll show you how to do it, TOO.

Buy my stuff, donate to the GOP, do what I do.

The Dems will turn to dust and blow away,

but if you want, to be my friend, you’ll get rich and happy right away.

I’ve got lots of friends in the USA.

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Do you know what I’ve done for the USA?

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My beautiful bill is a great big giveaway.

I put illegals down and raised the bar.

In all my years, I’ve always been a star.

I made world peace. How great is that?

And all those losers, who never-were,

can get their funds cut-off and kiss my ass.

I’ve got lots of friends in the USA.

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Do you know what I’ve done for the USA?

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Can’t wait to do more for the USA.

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