Corruption

Once upon a time, corruption was something the corrupt tried to hide.

No longer.

We have reached the state where the corrupt own the media, governments, politicians, algorithms, global sporting events, banks, finance. All of it.

It is all out in the open now. The last stages of a thoroughly broken system.

The richest nation in the world, run by the most corrupt president in history, co-hosting the biggest sporting event in the world, an event so wrapped in obscene amounts of money, which brings with it deep corruption, the game that often starts on a dirt pitch in the poorest areas – those same dirt pitches the scene of poverty created by the very same countries that spit the dummy (throw a tantrum) when the poor people do not do their bidding – to think this was going to be a level playing field is the dellusion we, the people, hoped for. 

But no, not even that. 

No level playing field. 

The irony, oh the rotten irony, the very player now reinstated by a profoundly corrupt FIFA, is a birthright citizen – a young man born in the USA by accident. The very man who called on FIFA on his behalf wants him denied citizenship. Cake and eat it? 

I think the heartbreak for people of the world is that a game played around the world by kids with nothing is the hopefully last bastion of fairness.

But the cruelty and greed of the corrupt are never satisfied. 

Always they want more. And more. And more.

I feel compassion for their hollow bones and small, luxurious lives. I do not envy them.

I am on team David, against the faux Goliath, even though the rules are rigged. Always have been. Even though I am small in stature, for as long as I have breathed, I have stood between the bully and the victim, fierce. I will continue to do so. 

Published July 6th 2026. Photo taken July 6th 2026