{"id":380,"date":"2025-10-20T10:48:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T10:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/?p=380"},"modified":"2025-10-20T10:48:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T10:48:41","slug":"dear-cousin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/2025\/10\/20\/dear-cousin\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Cousin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"402\" src=\"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-20-at-11.28.29-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-20-at-11.28.29-AM.png 602w, https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-20-at-11.28.29-AM-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been thinking about this since I got your message on my birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love you, cuz, but I love the distance between us. I don\u2019t know why you decided a shit father, rapist, racist, business cheating, draft dodging cunt was the type of man you wanted to hitch your wagon to, but you do you. As for me; I just don\u2019t have the energy or bandwidth to waste energy on a proud pendejo for Trump. Too many people I love are already being hurt by his administration. Like so many of us told you they would be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not just about politics, it\u2019s about basic human decency and respect for the marginalized. Your dude punches down so goddamn always.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than that, you \u201ci still love you\u201d rings hollow. Love is a verb; an act by the speaker. And it\u2019s not love to consistently vote for a man who sees me as less than. A man who would shit on my service, the service of my wife. A man who is doing his damndest to take away the healthcare that is keeping another of our cousins alive. A man who sees your own daughter as a second class citizen &#8211; unless, of course, he sees her as fuckable. Then he\u2019ll just move on her like a\u2026 well, you know the rest of what he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once upon a time I swore an oath to the Constitution. It\u2019s an oath I still hold sacred and dear. He\u2019s using the constitution to wipe his orange ass. So nah, you can go ahead and live your best life, just leave me out of it. I\u2019ll see you at family reunions or whatever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been thinking about this since I got your message on my birthday. I love you, cuz, but I love the distance between us. I don\u2019t know why you decided a shit father, rapist, racist, business cheating, draft dodging cunt was the type of man you wanted to hitch your wagon to, but you do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oxygen_hide_in_design_set":false,"_oxygen_tags":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[135,134,136],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-daily-dribble","tag-family","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}