He even refused to criticize the president’s mental acuity - an insult that’s become de rigueur to stay in the good graces of the Republican base. He reached across the aisle to introduce fellow Hoosier Pete Buttigieg at his Senate confirmation hearing. He was one of 10 GOP senators to visit with President Joe Biden to discuss a coronavirus relief package at the White House last year. Last January, video of Young pleading his case on voting to certify the 2020 election results with a group of protesters near the Capitol went viral. Young has accomplished this despite taking all-but-guaranteed stances to provoke Trump’s ire. After winning the seat by vanquishing Evan Bayh, the former two-term senator and scion of a decadeslong Hoosier political dynasty, Young’s campaign is so confident in its general election prospects with Democratic Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott this November that it is already shedding some junior staffers.
“I’ve been thinking about this campaign since 2016 because 2016 was such a traumatic experience.”Īround Young’s suburban Indianapolis campaign headquarters, where a poster from the 1986 basketball movie “Hoosiers” hangs, Savage espouses a similar underdog mentality, routinely asking his 14 other campaign staffers: “When did Noah build the ark?” only to answer, “before it rained.”īut the rain never came. “It wasn’t accidental, and it was a long time coming,” Cam Savage, Young’s general consultant, said. Marjorie Taylor Greene “nutty,” will skate to the Republican nomination unopposed on May 3.
Young was not among them.ĭespite the frostiness from Mar-a-Lago, the cerebral former Marine, a disciple of the late moderate Sen. I guess this is more complicated than I thought after all.At the end of last week, one by one, Trump blasted out endorsements for every Republican congressional incumbent up for reelection from Indiana, including Rep. For what it's worth, I'm a pineapple-raspberry hybrid who occasionally identifies as cherry, depending on what kind of mood you get me in. Of course, you could just say "I'm seeing someone" to make your relationship status known, but that seems so extra when you could just post a. According to Reddit, it's also opened up to include animals too - pandas mean you're single, birds mean you like someone - now that more and more people are catching on to the meanings behind each fruit.įor the less well-versed, though, the fruit game is just kind of strange. But apparently this game doesn't stop at fruit.
Personally, I've never known how to work fruit emojis into my everyday interactions, so thank you, teens, for teaching me this very important method of communication. There's even an entire Reddit thread dedicated to trying to figure out what each of the mysterious Snapchat fruit mean Reddit user marimbruhh pointed puzzled decoders to this Imgur post, which shows a Snapchat post going viral telling girls to participate: It's unclear who exactly started the Snapchat fruit game -or why it resurfaced again in April 2020 - but whoever it was, their plan is working.
Here's the full breakdown, according to Wojdylo: Lemons mean you want to be single, raspberries mean you can't commit, and pineapples mean it's complicated.
The rules, it seems, are pretty simple: Reference the state of your love life using a specific "flavor." Single AF? Post "blueberry." In a relationship? Post a cherry. The Snapchat fruit "game" originally started shortly after Christmas 2016, according to Wojdylo Social Media, and is done by girls who are looking to "confuse guys" (and the rest of the world) about whether or not they are single, dating someone, or currently not looking.
Back in ~my~ day all it took was an “it’s complicated” relationship status update on Facebook to get people talking, but apparently today’s youths find more joy encrypting their messages with emojis they’d probably never use otherwise. If you've been seeing random cherry, pineapple, and banana emojis appear where you used to just see selfies of your friends wearing cartoon dog ears, you're probably wondering what does fruit on Snapchat stories mean? It's nothing sinister, but it is a little strange - people have been posting different fruit to indicate their relationship status.