Is anyone the least bit surprised that Tomi Lahren benefits from Obamacare?
Making fun of Tomi Lahren has become so easy, we’re starting to feel like this is some elaborate trap. Like she’s the carrot at the end of a stick that goes all the way to the top of American life, keeping us distracted and smug and tweeting nail-polish emojis while oligarchs strip-mine our political system for profit. Or maybe she just never bothered to look into what the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. The Dread Pirate Obamacare, actually says, and has no idea that, without the bill’s provision requiring insurance providers to allow kids to stay on their parents’ health insurance until age 26, her ass would have lost her healthcare along with her job at The Blaze.
But then again, why should we be surprised at the staggering sense of entitlement behind Lahren—who weaseled her way onto the public stage by telling campfire tales about the evils of Obamacare to shrieking Republicans—responding to a question from Chelsea Handler at Politicon this past weekend by saying, “luckily, I’m 24, so I’m still on my parents’ [health care plan]”? Bitching that a system that’s designed to benefit her isn’t rigged enough in her favor is part of Lahren’s shtick.