As a life-long Michigander, what pence did on Mackinac Island makes me sick.

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No goddamned respect for ANYTHING. And the Mayor should've said no.

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Cars have been banned on Mackinac Island since 1898. So what does idiot Pence do? Shows up in an EIGHT-vehicle motorcade.

No one in Trump's administration has a damn bit of respect for anything.

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Vice President Mike Pence leaves the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island Saturday in an eight-vehicle motorcade — the island’s first ever.

[Siwsan]

1. I 100% agree. Pence is sub-slime

I hope that Mayor gets shown the door.

[blm]

2. They do this crap to show off their imperial presidency. There is no norm

or tradition or law in this country that they won’t break just to prove they CAN get away with it.

[Tanuki]

3. Rules are for the little people.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. I visited the Island in 2000.

Pristine and set in a time where bicycles , horse drawn carriages, and foot paths are the modes of transportation. A lovely place with a Grand Hotel I ate lunch at.

[shanti]

57. It's on my bucket list

Ever since seeing the movie, "Somewhere in Time".

[ancianita]

5. Trampling nature is what human haters do. Even apex predators know not to wreck environments.

[bbgrunt]

6. How did they even get the cars onto the island?

[catbyte]

11. The ferry. Some of them are large enough to accommodate large machinery.

[TNNurse]

12. Trust me, some of our tax money paid for the multiple frerries

to take them back and forth.

I went to Mackinac for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Cars are not necessary there. The roads are not built for them.

The carriages that take people to the Grand Hotel are quite elegant. They would be appropriate for Queen Elizabeth or
Michelle Obama.

Pence is a whiny little man just like his boss and mentor.

[JHB]

23. Pence was afraid of the carriageman (coachman?)...

...or really, anyone who is professionally familiar with what a horse's ass looks like.

He sees it in their eyes when they look at him. They know.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

20. You take a ferry to the Island which is in Lake Huron....

Mike Pence has no decency or respect for norms.

[TNNurse]

31. You could have stopped at

has no decency.

[FakeNoose]

7. What an ass! Pence should have been banned from the island

Showing no respect for local laws and traditions.

[malaise]

8. Rules do not apply to these monster

The officials should not have allowed their own rules to be violated.

[Botany]

9. Is he too good to ride a golf cart?

I wonder if this act will piss off any Michigander Trump supporters?

A nice Sept. day on Mackinac Island and you get to ride in a golf cart
so what is the down side?

[paleotn]

10. That they do not.

I'm just glad "mother" isn't in Vermont. I hate that fucking prick.

https://vtdigger.org/2019/08/30/vice-president-pence-touches-down-in-vermont/

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. pampered little prick

[The Genealogist]

14. He's a white straight Christian male conservative

That means in his mind he gets do anything he damned well pleases. And anyone who objects is persecuting him.

[keithbvadu2]

15. It gives the peasants something to gaze in awe.

It gives the peasants something to gaze in awe.

[Greybnk48]

16. My husband was there on business and had a kidney stone.

Not his first, so he knew what was happening. THEY TRANSPORTED HIM TO A CLINIC FROM HIS HOTEL IN A HORSE DRAWN CART!!

Everything has worked there since 1898. It works and it's beautiful. I hate these Trump pigs.

Mike Pence will be forgotten.

[manhattan123]

17. When Jerry Ford visited that island...

...he and wife Betty rode in a horse-drawn carriage. He may have been the last somewhat normal Republican.

[roamer65]

19. Jerry Ford was a Michigander.

He knew the islands tradition quite well and knew not to mess with it.

[roamer65]

18. Broadcast this far and wide in Michigan.

Michiganders are proud of the island and it’s tradition. This will not play well here in MI.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

26. Still a troll but...

In the northern part of the mitt...you’re right not going over too well...even with the “reds”.

[Roland99]

45. Looked like people giving him a thumbs up

[Peregrine Took]

58. I saw that, too......were they area rich folk or tourists who ran up there to see him? Ugh! n/t

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

21. Pissed me off right down to my bones...

Total lack of respect for tradition...why?...cuz a horse bit him? Smart horse. This should not have been allowed to happen.
When I first heard it was going to be the emergency Suburban they keep hidden on the island. One car...well maybe ok...but eight? Rewrite the history books.


The Grand Hotel will probably go downhill after the family sold it. Another argument for another day.

[musicman65]

22. As we are from Michigan

as well,there is no respect,for the history,just want the vote,,see this for what they are.
vote them out !!!

[demmiblue]

24. Cosigned.

A whole lot of people are pissed. Rightfully so.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. Then maybe he shouldn't have gone there at all.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

28. The issue is the fact the Veep could have made other arrangements

or not gone if the Secret Service couldn't live with the no car thing.........

[JHB]

29. Republicans acting they way they accuse Democrats of acting

File under "elitist" and "the Clintons have different rule than the rest of us" in the Yellow Elephant hypocrisy compendium.

[3Hotdogs]

30. He was only trying to get the libtards pissed.

Yes, Art, its sarcasm.

[Volaris]

36. Well, it seems he can't even do that right, cause EVERYONES pissed at him now lol.

What a buncha fuckin dopes they all are.

[KPN]

32. These people are in their own minds the privileged class; they are today's bourgoisie.

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"Let them eat cake" brings to mind a fitting fantasy graphic for me.

[Hortensis]

52. :) I don't think Pence sees himself as middle class.

He may not be wealthy himself, but his connections with true wealth put him on an entirely different plane. Anyway, in a world where plumbers vote and live in greater luxury than the old "bourgeoisie" ever did and where people who count their wealth in hundreds of millions can only try to imagine what it's like to count your wealth in tens of billions, I really think socialists need new terminology.

But agree this is stupid arrogance to the nth. It'll bit him.

[KPN]

55. Thank you for that clarification. You are indeed right about that -- so I've made a small edit that

doesn't quite suffice but is perhaps better.

[3Hotdogs]

61. He was rich. His father was in oil... gave each of his kids $1 mil. That was in the '80's.

He "invested" his share with a friend. The investment went south.

[greatauntoftriplets]

33. Hopefully, he won't go back any time.

I imagine that the islanders were happy to see his backside leave.

[WinstonSmith4740]

34. I was on Mackinac Island back in '73.

My brother-in-law used to race in the "Big Mac". Stayed at the Grand Hotel. Got to see The Northern Lights. That island is a kind of magic place.

So when I read your post title, my immediate thought was "So what did that idiot do, bring a car?" No, that would have been simply ignorant. And this administration doesn't do anything small, so of course he would bring a motorcade.

I'm a little surprised and kind of disappointed that the ferry company brought them over. Back in the day, Nixon's brother tried to get reservations at a restaurant in SoCal that didn't take reservations. He told them they didn't understand, this was RICHARD Nixon, POTUS. He was told, "No you don't understand. We don't take reservations." I miss that shit. Although Moscow Mitch getting harrassed in restaurants is kind of nice.

[tblue37]

35. Remember the damage W's helicopter did to Queen Elizabeth's garden? This behavior is

a Republican thing.

[Wawannabe]

37. Wow

So essentially he’s having vacation on the taxpayers because there is no reason for him to be there except vacation and he does this ...so totally agree with you.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

38. So why the fuck were the cars allowed to get on the ferries in the first place?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

39. Government cars. Who's going to stop them?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

47. The people operating the ferry?

When I was a ticket agent at National Airport in Washington, DC, lo these many years ago, I would ten-minute time rule U.S. Senators and CAB Board members.

Back then the rule was if you weren't at the ticket lift position ten minutes before departure time, your reservation could be considered cancelled and you'd have to rebook. We would do that to protect ourselves from oversales, but also sometimes because the ticket counter was a fifteen minute walk from our gates.

And yes, I had more than one unhappy Senator in front of me. I only did it once to a CAB board member.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

48. That was then. This is the Trump administration.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

49. Had I been the ferry operator

they wouldn't have gotten on.

[Hortensis]

54. Yes, but deeper: It's a conservative thing.

[Liberal In Texas]

40. There are some vehicles on the island...

firetrucks and ambulances, I've seen them. I'm sure it's because they've been deemed as necessary for public safety.

But this Pence BS hardly qualifies as necessary.

[Sugar Smack]

41. Oh, he's SO fucking delicate. So fragile.

What was it? I can't find any actual reason he did that. Is he allergic to horses? Afraid of them? (He's already scared shitless of women; he knows we're really all witches.) Maybe his pointy nose has problems with the aroma. Maybe he thinks the horses are mooning him. Who tf knows what goes on in that sucking black void in his head?

[sandiapeach]

62. He may be afraid of horses.

Pence claimed that triple crown winner American Pharoah bit him on the arm. He said they let him hold the multi-million dollar
stallion's reins and the horse then bit him so hard Pence almost passed out. I can't imagine them letting a stranger handle the reins
of such a valuable animal and management said that it never happened.

[Rhiannon12866]

63. I can't either, no one but his handlers are allowed to get near those valuable horses

Why would they let an outsider handle such a horse? Makes no sense to me either and horses like this are used to being fussed over and are very unlikely to bite. I don't believe Pence, either.

[weissmam]

42. comment

The only thing I can imagine was that there were security concerns that necessitated travel by car. Though it still sends the wrong message and is really bad optics.

Plus Pence is a douchbag and everyone knows it

[wendyb-NC]

43. I agree,

the whole of the tromp cartel has no respect for anything. I hope he gets chiggers, or 7 year itch. Not much chance in his hermetically sealed vehicle, though.

[Buns_of_Fire]

44. Sucking up to the boss again, I see.

If he shows Comrade Fishylips that he can be just as big an asshole, maybe he won't get dumped for Ivanka next year.

[Blue Owl]

46. Only a mother could love him -- whatever that means...

n/t

[Blue_true]

50. What Pence did is a good thing.

They are quick to accuse us of being elites. Pence's actions were the absolute definition of elitism, we should in our language stick that to him like stink on feces.

So, he did a good deed for us, if we don't step on our dicks while pinning him with it.

[Botany]

51. Al Gore, Harry Truman, Gerry Ford, Bill Clinton,

... Nelson and Happy Rockefeller, Ike, and so on all visited
Mackinac Island and they all took bikes, horse carts, or golf carts no problem.


Btw I might be wrong on Ike.

[muntrv]

53. Michigan Democrats should play an ad featuring this every hour

on the hour.

[Hortensis]

56. If not all MI conservatives are outraged at the disrespect, best not

assume they're mostly just defending Pence/Trump.

Attitude toward equality is the single biggest natural (political) difference between liberals and conservatives. Conservatives tend to feel social hierarchy and privilege are both right and natural, that people earn and deserve their level of society. It's equality that doesn't ping with them. All men are created with equal rights just doesn't feel right to them.

Being a born liberal, I was very surprised to learn that conservatives accept being less privileged than others as normal and appropriate, just as much as they accept being privileged over those lower in the hierarchy.

Pence is way up the privilege scale. If there's road damage, some will not resent paying the taxes that repair that at all, even if it means less left for meeting their own needs.

Btw, I love that person who wouldn't give Nixon a reservation, and I'd bet my checking account he or she was NOT conservative, and not for political spite.

[rockfordfile]

59. Pence is un-American

[Rhiannon12866]

60. Twitter reply :

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[IronLionZion]

64. Michiganders need to vote him out of office

just make sure Michigan goes blue in the election and show him

[fishwax]

65. what a jackass