Twitter's Main Character Of The Day Is A Woman Who Claims To Burn Her Son's Pokémon Cards If He Doesn't Eat

Every day on Twitter, there is a Main Character who draws the majority of the site's ire for a very bad tweet. While the main character isn't always noteworthy outside of the site's daily frenzy, today's is particularly special: Republican political strategist Liz Mair, who claims that she burns her son's Pokémon cards if he doesn't eat.

For clarity's sake, it's important to note this is a bit. Ten hours before her Pokémon card tweets, Mair posted, "This website is getting to be really boring. I’m starting to consider tweeting deliberately crazy and offensive stuff just to try to spice it up again."

This website is getting to be really boring. I’m starting to consider tweeting deliberately crazy and offensive stuff just to try to spice it up again.

— Liz Mair (@LizMair) October 15, 2021

As a troll job, Mair has crafted an arguably perfect tweet to rile up on the entire site. She's tapped into the site's keen investment in parenting, particularly bad parenting, and also conjured the image of a malnourished little boy sobbing while his mother burns his beloved Bulbasaur or whatever. She presents it matter-of-factly, like it's the most reasonable thing in the world to do, and that she's doing it for her son's benefit. That she pulled it off without giving the game away is frankly impressive.

Twitter users took the bait as expected. The cruelty and potential for childhood trauma stemming from the situation she described were very clear to most who encountered the tweet without context, as evidenced by Mair's staggering 2,300-40 quote-tweet-to-retweet ratio.

I don't think you realize that you are destroying your relationship with your child and building resentment in him so that when he grows up, he won't be visiting you when you're old and dying. Unless it's maybe to spit on your grave https://t.co/Xi7imq02gj

— 𝕐𝕒𝕂𝕚𝕕𝕕ℙ𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕘ℂ𝕦𝕕𝕚 (@yakiddphangcudi) October 15, 2021

You deserve to be locked up in the Hague https://t.co/T7hWfDNxE4

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 15, 2021

Your kid will hate you for life and prepare for them to put a baseball bat to your car when they're older. https://t.co/g4CAxeKpNU

— interior kogadile alligator™ (@Koga_NoidZX) October 15, 2021

Deleting my kid's MMO characters every time they don't say "Yes ma'am" to me when I order them to eat 1000 grams of protein because I think they're too skinny. https://t.co/RX5Z7Mylbg

— Scott 🇵🇸 (@fyrescotch) October 15, 2021

After the expected pile-on to her tweets, Mair confirmed that she was trolling, responding to a user who figured it out by adding, "Andy figured something out that a lot of the rest of you have not. Read people’s Twitter timelines, people…

Andy figured something out that a lot of the rest of you have not. Read people’s Twitter timelines, people… https://t.co/LC2oFLrX3m

— Liz Mair (@LizMair) October 15, 2021

So no, there isn't a Republican strategist out there burning her child's Pokémon cards to get him to eat a sandwich. But there is a brilliant troll.