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.ContentsDOGE’s Destruction: 16,000 Jobs Eliminated in Public Land […]

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).

  • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
    296·
    5 days ago

    “You won’t meet anyone more conservative than me, and I didn’t vote for this,” Zink told Politico…

    Right. You voted for other people to lose their jobs. In reality you voted for and deserve exactly what you’re getting.

    • BCsven@lemmy.caEnglish
      142·
      5 days ago

      “You won’t meet anyone more conservative than me, and I didn’t vote for this,”

      Ha, I grabbed that quote too.

      Narrator Voice: But He did. He actually did vote for this.

      • foodandart@lemmy.zipEnglish
        32·
        5 days ago

        honestly, what I hear when these nitwits say this is “I spent all my time being told what to think by people on TV (famous celebrities! Ooooo!) in the media that I was easily impressed by…”

        It’s the full flower of the Southern Strategy that Lee Atwater leveraged in 1980 to help Reagan take the election. The early 80’s was also when Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and Lee Atwater - broke into politics in the biggest way and cemented lying and couched racism as right wing political tools…

        https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/75/creatures-of-the-swamp/

        It’s been all downhill for the US since then.

      • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        8·
        4 days ago

        Naw he voted to hurt black and brown people. But didn’t realize he was voting for classist as much as a racist.