Yeesh, time sure is moving fast for those of us who grew up in the nineties, isn’t it? From hearing our old favorite tunes playing in the grocery store to our childhood video games now being described as “retro”, the near-constant reminders of how old we’ve gotten can sure be exhausting. Well, it’s about to get even worse, because remember the iconic music video for Pearl Jam’s 1992 hit “Jeremy”? It turns out all of the Nazi-saluting children have grown up and are now working in the Trump administration!
Ugh! Feeling old, anyone?
Man, this is so crazy. Doesn’t it seem like yesterday that we were watching these spry youngsters performing the fascist hand gesture and bullying one of their classmates to the point of suicide on MTV? Now they’re apparently all full-grown adults who are basically doing the same thing while in the employ of our current President Donald Trump. Seriously, how does time go by so fast?
Take, for example, the husky young man with the slightly disheveled hairstyle seated near the back of the classroom, who appears perhaps a little too eager to show off one of the most recognizable demonstrations of Germany’s darkest era. Look familiar to you? That’s right! He’s none other than current Vice President J.D. Vance! Man, he’s really stuck to his principles over these past few decades, hasn’t he? And who’s that studious young lady with the dutiful posture at the head of the last column of pupils? You guessed it! That’s Attorney General Pam Bondi! You can tell she’s had that strong work ethic and slavish, craven lack of principles her entire life!
Wow! While we have to hand it to these kids and congratulate them for their accomplishments, we can’t help but feel like it might be time to start touring some nursing homes for ourselves!
We guess all we can do at this point is throw up our hands and wonder where the time went. It’s going to be difficult rewatching the music video going forward with the newfound knowledge that the pre-pubescent Nazis on the screen are now fully-grown Nazis in charge of running the country, but we’re just going to accept the fact that we’re old and try our best to not let it bother us. After all, with the job they’re doing, it’s not like we’ll even have a country for much longer, which is nice since we can certainly do with one less sign of how rapidly we’re aging!
