Terry Zink has spent 57 years building a life in Montana’s backcountry. The 57-year-old third-generation houndsman from Marion—a remote town nestled deep within the Flathead National Forest—runs a small archery target business serving outdoor recreation workers and guides who, until recently, had steady employment managing America’s public lands. Contents
Those workers are disappearing. Their jobs are gone. And Zink, who voted for Trump in 2024, is watching his customer base—and his livelihood—vanish before his eyes.
“You won’t meet anyone more conservative than me, and I didn’t vote for this,” Zink told Politico reporters as he surveyed the damage. “You cannot fire our firefighters. You cannot fire our trail crews. You have to have selective logging, water restoration, and healthy forests” (1).
It’s like signing a contract, you have only yourself to blame if the contract sucks but didn’t read it before putting your signature on it.
and this time it wasn’t even like those EULAs that are dozens and dozens of pages long legalese that nobody understands, it was up front and clear and repeatedly announced
Yes you did.
Do people just not understand how voting works, or what the word means? Do they maybe think it’s short for Devote?
Of course not. He voted for other people to lose their jobs.
Maybe he should reflect on what it’s like to be “other people”.
His situation is a mistake that needs to be rectified, everyone else deserved it.
If they had empathy, they wouldn’t be conservative.
Yeah you did. You voted for the richest of us to feast on everyone else. That was explicitly why every mega rich motherfucker threw their salt behind Trump
Awww is someone having a hard time finding his bootstraps? 😁
You did vote for this & you were also warned.
You’re just a sucker.
I think I might write this fellow a strongly worded letter.
'I didn’t vote this." Yes. Yes you did. You didn’t want to hear others tell you what you were voting for. You wanted to believe your own fantasy version. Even now, most MEGA voters want to believe their own fantasy of what Trump will do for America over the truth of what he is actively doing.
thats why they fall for scams quite easily, they trump is just kidding or he suddenly reverses what he does, nope he doesnt. only the 1st term he had people preventing him from doing too much damage, this time no one is going to stop trump and his cronies, conservatives also want to blame democrats, but dems arnt in power anymore.
We tried to fucking tell you chucklefucks what was going to happen if Trump was elected. Project 2025 laid it all out plain as day but you still fucking gargled his shit covered balls so fuck you fuck you fuck you.
We should ban all of the dumb fucking apes who voted for Trump from voting again
They’ve made it incredibly obvious they’re completely fucking incompetent, and don’t actually care about society, but instead just want to hurt others. That level of stupidity shouldn’t be tolerated
all the tourism in those conservative states mustve dried up, but fox will never report on such a thing to scare the voters.
OBAMA broke the minds of moderate republicans, and liberterians. cant have a black man as a president, this ensure also no woman will be a president ever in america too.
The workers who lost their jobs weren’t desk-bound administrators. They were firefighters, trail maintenance crews, wildlife biologists, rangers, foresters, and seasonal workers who kept public lands accessible and safe. They were the people who made it possible for outfitters, guides, hunters, ranchers, and tourism operators to do business.
try doing that without desk-bound administrators and see how it goes
The betrayal is particularly acute because these workers weren’t making big government salaries. Forest Service seasonal workers typically earn $15 to $18 per hour. Park rangers make $35,000 to $50,000 annually. These were working-class jobs that supported working-class families in rural communities with few other options.
isn’t this the same group of people who claim that minimum wage is too high?
You wanted fascism, Zinky. Well, you got it. And you better thank Dear Leader and Jesus. You live in the Greatest Country In The World, and God gave you bootstraps!
Quit crying and get a job, weakling. Hail Trump.
These are real jobs held by real people in small towns across Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona—states that overwhelmingly voted for Trump.
Whoa whoa whoa, don’t lump Colorado in with those states. We absolutely did NOT vote for that piece of shit - 3 times in a row.
Idk how they got Colorado in there
Oh, Terry, you sweet summer child.
What did you expect would get cut when Donald told you he was going to take a saw to our government?
