How Homeless Drug Addicts Just Voted To Raise Your Taxes

Imagine it’s 75 degrees and sunny, you’re outside with friends, gumbo sizzlin’ on the cooker, cold Modelo in hand. Not a care, not a job, not a clue. You just registered to vote by scratching a few signatures on a pamphlet, cast a ballot for God-knows-who, and, for your devout civic duty, you are rewarded with a cigarette.

Inhale, exhale. The smoke blows across the pavement and eventually dissolves into the view of ethereal skies and the rolling, smoggy silhouette of the Hollywood Hills.

That, folks, is a typical Monday for a homeless crack junkie in Los Angeles.

Last week, the L.A. mayoral race was officially called, and to voters’ consternation, Mayor Karen Bass and City Councilwoman Nithya Raman will advance to the November 3 runoff, as neither candidate cleared 50% of the vote. Spencer Pratt, the Angeleno whose house burned down during the Palisades Fire, who was running as an independent to prevent further destruction from devastating the city he cares so deeply for, was edged out of the race a week after Election Day.

Monday’s count added another 33,378 votes to Raman’s total overnight, while Pratt gained only 14,672 and Bass added a further 25,121. Raman now sits at 28.5%, Pratt at 26.7%, and Bass at 34.7%, with 93% of votes counted. Pratt lost by a whisker. And he lost it to a ballot-harvesting machine that has been humming along, legally, for years.

This is enraging for a plethora of reasons. The two victorious candidates are radicals who would each continue grinding the once-angelic city to a sadistic pulp. A tax-increase measure on the ballot also passed. And the entire election process looked about as legitimate as a three-dollar bill, corroding what little public trust remained in California’s voting systems.

But the cherry on top of this feces-pie? The homeless. The thousands of homeless people plaguing the streets of L.A. voted in bulk for the communists and to raise your taxes.

Yes. The drug addicts who cannot make salient life decisions, and as a result are unhoused, as the idiots say, are playing a consequential role in how California is governed.

It’s a simple and ingenious scheme, if you’re into large-scale legalized fraud.

Candidates like Nithya Raman funnel money, reportedly in the form of $60,000 checks, into homeless shelters where hundreds of people are registered to vote. Democratic NGOs host voter registration drives at those same centers, coerce the residents into signing up, help them fill out the paperwork, and cast ballots on the Democrats’ behalf. Then a useful idiot collects the stack and drops them off at a ballot drop box on behalf of the coke zombies.

This isn’t speculation. The California Post reported that 1,160 voters were registered to vote at the Midnight Mission in Skid Row, a shelter whose website lists a capacity for just 84 men and 36 women. One homeless man living on that skidmark street told reporters that voter registration efforts have been active in the area for years, and that in the past, he helped out in exchange for cigarettes.

Inhale. Exhale. Democracy.

These people have no idea who is even on the ballot. They are doing, ingesting, saying anything for drugs and a little cash. They have no idea they just propelled a Cuban Marxist-trained communist and her even further Left friend into the next round of the mayoral race.

They also have no idea their ballots helped push through the Essential Services Restoration Act, a countywide general sales tax measure that is now passing with 50.35% of the vote. It raises the sales tax rate from 9.75% to 10.25%, stacked on top of whatever cities are already picking from your pocket. The billion dollars expected to be grabbed go into the general fund.

Great. So they can spend more of your money “generally” transing the kids and “generally” handing out heroin needles to crack addicts.

The measure was losing. Then, a week after election day, just enough tax-enthused mail-in ballots materialized to flip it. Funny how that keeps happening.

For those more confused than Gavin Newsom trying to read a book, here is the legal fraud playbook, written a long time ago in California, and only now getting the outrage it deserves.

In 2016, ballot harvesting was expanded and made fully legal. So John Democrat Doe from down the street can walk into a homeless shelter, scoop up a couple of hundred ballots from willing methheads, and dump them at the polls on their behalf.

In 2021, universal vote-by-mail was permanently enshrined, mandating that every active registered voter receive a ballot by mail automatically. You fill it out, sit on it, and drop it off whenever you feel like it. And as Steve Hilton pointed out, you fill in the date yourself. So if you’re a day or two past election day and need to backdate things a little, well, who’s really gonna know?

In 2024, Newsom signed Senate Bill 1174, banning local municipalities from enacting their own voter ID requirements.

Hilarious. They literally banned voter ID. They don’t want to know who you are or what you are. Only that you are welcome here, rainbow sunshine, as you are.

Maybe they’d warm up to the idea if we just mandated everyone to put their pronouns next to their name.

And to top it all off, California refuses to clean its voter rolls. People are casting ballots on behalf of folks like Dorris, who is registered as a 126-year-old and has apparently voted in 51 elections without her knowledge. There’s a good chance that a portion of Raman’s voters weren’t alive to see her win. Bummer.

By 2024, upwards of 87% of voters were casting their ballots by mail.

This is the environment. And into that environment, unions and nonprofits like the Democratic Socialists of America have sent their organizers armed with explicit instructions on how to harvest as many Democratic votes as possible. The operation generates thousands upon thousands of ballots for their preferred candidates, systematically, election cycle after election cycle.

But showing up to a voting booth in a MAGA hat? That would be insane.

This is legalized corruption, unfolding in plain sight. It is resulting in homeless zombies unknowingly making decisions that affect your tax dollars, your family, your safety, and your governance. It is resulting in increasingly radical, far-left candidates seizing the levers of power in one of America’s largest cities.

Democrats love to hurl the “undemocratic!” stone from their glass Marxist mansions.

The ballots are being harvested. The rolls are rotting. The shelters are stuffed with registered voters who couldn’t pick Nithya Raman out of a lineup. And every cycle, the machine gets a little more efficient, a little more brazen, and a little harder to stop.

It’s time we did something about it. Starting by demanding the basic election-integrity safeguards that every other functioning democracy on earth takes for granted. Voter ID. Clean rolls. An end to ballot harvesting. California doesn’t want those things, and now you know exactly why.