If There Are Any Fans of Taylor Swift Who Attacked Elon Musk As An “Oligarch,” They Should Be Forced To Wear Bags Over Their Heads For The Rest of Their Lives

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If There Are Any Fans of Taylor Swift Who Attacked Elon Musk As An 
“Oligarch,” They Should Be Forced To Wear Bags Over Their Heads For The 
Rest of Their Lives
July 13, 2026 / Jack Marshall

Taylor Swift’s extravagant-to-the-point-of madness wedding to Travis 
Kelce on July 3 was estimated to cost somewhere between $30 and $40 
million dollars. The grotesque orgy of self-promotion and conspicuous 
consumption was a days-long celebration at Madison Square Garden with 
over 1,000 guests (the couple’s closest friends, of course), most of 
them also millionaires, and featured performances by the kinds of top 
musicians who refused to celebrate our 250th Anniversary because Trump 
Bad. The thing required $160,000 just for New York City street closures, 
permits and police.

Renting Madison Square Garden and transforming the arena for the 
ceremony and reception cost an estimated $5 million to $10 million. 
Another $5 million went to flowers and decorations. Catering was about 
$3 million.

Oh, and we must not forget about the lottery! The wedding featured an 
hour-long luxury raffle with prizes including Chanel handbags, Cartier 
watches and a vintage 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle. The mostly celebrity 
guests earned raffle tickets by playing skee-ball, mini golf, and 
football-themed carnival games.

I’m not making this up. I wish I were.

Now, me, I couldn’t care less how rich people choose to throw away their 
money. An exercise in “See, everybody, we’re RICH! RICH I SAY!“

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!
…is repulsive and doesn’t reflect well on the perps, but as an exercise 
in egotism, narcissism and waste, it’s relatively harmless.

What does bother me is that the same people who will crowd into Taylor 
Swift concerts and buy her records will then frequent No Kings rallies 
when no one has emulated the excesses of 18th Century royalty like Swift 
and her NFL star hubby, then cheer on Bernie and his fellow travelers as 
they attack Elon Musk, who never in his life as a billionaire or 
trillionaire or whatever he is has ever spent his money as stupidly and 
selfishly as the Swifts. Musk actually builds, invests, and creates jobs 
with his money.

Hypocrisy doesn’t begin to describe how perverse this double standard is.