Trump administration policies slashing staffing and funding for public lands are waking a sleeping political giant in Montana. Will either party notice?
They explicitly did vote for this.
What did they think doge and “drill baby drill” would do?
“I voted for Mr. Hitler because he’d be good for the economy. I didn’t go in for all that Jew-killing stuff. You can’t blame that on me.” - German citizen, 1946
“I just wanted the Jews to not exist anymore, not that they should be killed!”
Definitely not defending it but originally it was pitched as removing them from the country. But when the Germans realized how logistically impossible that was going to be they just decided to kill them. That first part sounds a little familiar doesn’t it?
Screw him. Sport hunting is for idiots. Yes you did vote for this, want to know why? You saw so much as an ‘R’ next to someone’s name, saw how many votes they were getting and you went for it. You did infact, vote for this. So fuck you, mr.sport-hunter.
Zink voted for Trump but said he doesn’t agree with everything the president does. Zink clarifies he calls himself a “conservative” over calling himself a “Republican.” He doesn’t like Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric. “I prefer common sense in the middle,” he said.
You fired for Trump. You’re a Republican. You don’t prefer common sense in the middle, you are a Republican that tries to distance yourself from the consequences of your actions by calling yourself a conservative. You did this to yourself, you fucking idiot.
There are no Republicans or Conservatives any more. That was just the larval stage for their final form: MAGA. The Republican/ Conservative movement is dead. They’re all MAGA whether they like it or not.
Remember in 2025 when GWB had so thoroughly fucked the country that even Republicans denied supporting him?
They never learn a damn thing; the party response is to always double down on reactionary policies that shore up their support among the absolute worst people in the US so that billionaires can consolidate their wealth and power.
2025? Don’t you mean 2007?
Yeah, idk how I borked that.
They will vote to throw out the current crop of GOP thieves and liars, then vote in a fresh new batch of GOP crooks.
Having learned nothing…
Long after they’d caught Saddam in a hole in the ground and found billions in cash floating around Iraq, I talked to a guy who swore that there had bee WMDs and that they’d been transported to Syria.
Was it ANTIFA? Ask him, I’ll bet he’ll say yes.
Democratic presidents have just become placeholders between disastrous Republican administrations, in office just long enough for voters to forget the last Republican debacle, and fall for the same old propaganda, and vote them back in to continue their destruction of America.
That describes every Democratic president since LBJ, our last warrior Democratic president.
Yes you did! YES. YOU. DID.
… They literally voted for this.
He’s a rural Montanan whose way of life and livelihood depend on public lands.
Translation: he depends on socialism to survive (not that he’ll ever see it that way, of course).
Hunting season had yet to open when we spoke, but Zink was already hearing from fellow hunters who had to cut their own way into trails to hunting camps after Forest Service trail crews were laid off en masse.
Oh, no - work?!
Ranchers and farmers use public lands for agriculture; outfitters and guides take guests into them; hunters access them regularly to put food in the family freezer; and forestry, timber and sawmill workers fulfill contracts on them for wildfire mitigation and lumber.
Party of small government sure likes to suck the government teat.
I spoke to people across Montana, from different professions and down the political range from independent to staunchly conservative
Helluva range there, considering that (on a global scale) Democrats have right-wing views.
A ranch this size, 700 private acres, could still operate without a public land allotment by leasing other private land, but that’s much more expensive — prohibitively so, for most ranchers. Down in the Southwest, he said, many ranches are a whopping 90 percent federal land allotments; it’s often much less than that in western Montana.
Yeah, I don’t care enough to finish the article.
Edit typo.
Welfare for me, but not for thee.
Yeah I couldn’t be bothered to even read more than three sentences. It’s just one big crybaby crying crocodile tears because he’s uneducated, he only knows how to hunt for sport and lives in a pretty boring-ass state. Fuck him.
Uhh… but he DID vote for that
I really want to insult these people to their face with the biggest damn “i told you so” of examples of their actions.
I know it won’t do a lick of good with these people as they’ll just dig in to their illusions harder, but frankly at this point…. I don’t give a damn.
They won’t ever change, no matter what we do, so I just want some catharsis of calling them a dumb ass straight to their faces and wish them they worst as the world burns along with them.
This is the point where I’m at. They always cry about personal responsibility and bootstraps except when it happens to them it’s a fucking travesty. If they won’t change their minds either way, I’m at least going to get a good laugh out of it.
They’d all vote for it again though
This needs to be on billboards in every small town experiencing distress because of Trump policy
I’m happy that some people are realizing the damage this is doing; however I’ll hold my celebration until it has some real world consequences for these people.
I’m holding my celebration until they actually (a) stop voting for Republicans, (b) express public contrition for their vote, © start actively and publicly working against the political party that brought this into being, and (d) continue until that political party is dismantled because it wasn’t just “Trump” that brought this into being, it was the entire Republican party who deliberately stacked the federal and Supreme Court, who gerrymandered maps to keep their extremists in power, and who’s “moderates” still toe the party line (except in a few cases where their votes don’t matter, but only so they can have a couple things to point to, showing how “independent” and “Washington outsider” they are when they go home to campaign for yet another term).
I really wish they’d all at least admit “I didn’t know what I was voting for”
They are admitting that by saying “this isn’t what I voted for.”
They lack the capacity for introspection, or refuse to do it because it’s painful, so they’ll say this isn’t what they voted for, when in reality they weren’t paying attention and were fed nothing but “woke bad, prices high, deport immigrants, vote for me.”
They are admitting that they don’t understand, but that is different than admitting that they did.
“This isn’t what I voted for. But what choice did I have? Did you expect me to vote for a woman?”
Oh they voted for it but they thought none of it would hit them. They were fine with it as long as it got those welfare queens off the government tit. They are racist shitfucks just like I deal with here in WNC. Same mentality.
