“President Joe Biden has taken hundreds of billions of dollars from taxpayers and given it to student loan holders, a desperate attempt to buy votes with your money. Now, the Justice Department is spending taxpayer dollars to buy a different voter bloc: Swifties. The DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation Entertainment is another election-year stunt,” writes the Washington Examiner’s Tom Hebert, who further down says that making the tickets to Taylor Swift’s tour only available through one single website that promptly crashed and fucked over all of her fans back in 2022 is somehow not a textbook example of the kind of monopoly that the government should dismantle.
“Like the student loan bailouts, the Ticketmaster lawsuit is a case of political pandering. For politicians like Biden, it is easier to cut a check to a voter than it is to explain to him why majoring in basket weaving did not put him in an economic position to pay off his student loan debt. Swift cannot charge her fans the true market price, so politicians are stepping in to provide air cover, shamefully buying votes with your tax dollars in the process,” the piece concludes after padding in about a half dozen paragraphs of “this is bad because Joe Biden did it” in the middle.