Moore writes: "Trump, Pence, top White House officials, key Cabinet members and top Republican leaders in Congress are at a retreat together this weekend at Camp David."

Filmmaker Michael Moore. (photo: Rolling Stone)

Agenda Items for Camp David Retreat

By Michael Moore, Michael Moore's Facebook Page

08 January 18

rump, Pence, top White House officials, key Cabinet members and top Republican leaders in Congress are at a retreat together this weekend at Camp David.

AGENDA ITEMS:

1. Opening Prayer for more money, less gays.

2. Pledge of Allegiance to the Republican Party (�PARTY OVER COUNTRY!�).

3. Sing National Anthem https://youtu.be/AOAtz8xWM0w

4. Another prayer, this one for more guns in every home.

5. Decide what part of North Korea to drop A-bomb on (look for a more desolate area; too many dead & burned civilians = bad PR).

6. Grant honorary party membership for Harvey Weinstein and all men currently under attack.

7. Pence power point presentation on gay conversion.

8. White Lives Matter guest speaker Gov. Rick Snyder.

9. Dinner: KFC, McDonald�s Quarter Pounders w/ cheese, Papa John�s meat-lovers pizza.

10. Entertainment: Steve Mnuchin prints REAL money LIVE; plus Fox & Friends perform in a Toby Keith Tribute Band

11. After Dinner Meeting (after Trump goes to bed with the leftover cheeseburgers): Invoke the 25th Amendment, then the men in the white jackets arrive and remove Trump to take him to Bethesda hospital for �observation� � but then for some reason, no one can find Pence! Some question if he ever existed! Ryan then installed until Nov 2018 election when the majority party will take over.

12. One last prayer for less gay fetuses.

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+13 # dyannne 2012-12-24 00:20

Great story! The ending a total surprise. I thought you were going to say you tripped on that gray rug and the gun went off - bullet ripping just past your father's ear. I can't help thinking that many more tragedies with guns than we will ever know are thwarted by some inner message like yours or a phone ringing - something that stops them. When my brother and I were about 11 and 9 we found my father's pistol hidden in his sock drawer. I remember that big black revolver, the bullets in the chamber, and my brother pointing it right at me a few feet away, saying he was going to shoot me. He didn't. I don't think we were interrupted. Maybe he too made a quick assessment of possibilities and lucky for us, he put it back in the drawer.

+12 # Rascalndear 2012-12-24 01:33

Your moment of clarity is the moment many normal people will have under hyperstress, when it seems like they just can't go on. I had it myself on two occasions when I was at my tether's end and thought of just collapsing into a screaming mess of nervous breakdown. I thought suddenly of what it really meant to lose control of my own life, to be in the charge of strangers, in hospitals, under heavy medications and so on and so on, just like nine-year-old you did, never knowing if I would ever regain control of my life again. And I decided sanity was worth the pain and the responsibility. Doing something insane was no haven.

+2 # julz50 2012-12-24 02:01

What if...your father locked up the guns.

0 # candida 2012-12-24 16:02

What if...he had the key? Get real! Yours is a seductive self-delusion. Ask yourself what are your motives for evading reality where people forget, don't have the means, or otherwise fail for a million other reasons?

-1 # julz50 2012-12-26 16:54

What if...your message was respectful? I would guess you don't own a gun and have a strong opinion others shouldn't either. That works for you easily, but not so for others that have been raised with guns, for generations and taught their children to shoot.

There is always a way around a safeguard, but unless guns are being used they should be secured. Perhaps legislation to make a gun safe part of gun purchase and penalities levied against owners that don't secure thier guns appropriate to the challenge of that environment, i.e., man living alone might be fine with a combo safe, whereas a family man with frequent vistors might need a gun safe with a lock and interior combination safeguard or a gun locker away from the home enviroment. There will always be accidents, but shall we take away every single privledge that has a dangerous component to it? What kind of freedom is that?

+4 # tedrey 2012-12-24 02:41

Yes, James, you're right. It is simple and you are right. Thank you.

+6 # Nominae 2012-12-24 02:52

Not to mention the fact that shotguns at close range are *very* unforgiving, and one need not possess much in the way of actual marksmanship skills to have actions result in *wildly* disproportionat e damage.

They are not called "scatter guns" for nothing.

-7 # SMoonz 2012-12-24 05:07

What this article makes a case for another factor that is not discussed much in the debate of guns, the fact that these shooters tend to come from homes where parents are either absent physically or emotionally. Clearly that is what was going one here.

There is much more going on here and he only paints a brief picture.

+10 # ericsongs 2012-12-24 05:14

James .... Thank you for reminding us of how frail we all are, with your powerful and poignant recollection. You have made a difference this day.

+9 # hammermann 2012-12-24 07:24

Well, I'm tempted to say, if he almost shot his father (not, say, threatening Chuck) over these difficulties,he probably did have underlying mental health issues. BUT this is the problem- guns are too easy, efficient, and complete a solution for minor squabbles and transient tortures. The presence of guns in such situations, kills, not just the people.

+16 # wwway 2012-12-24 07:32

The community that cares for special needs children and adults knows that there should never be access to guns. I was dismayed that Lanza was taught how to use them and had easy access. Sadly, there are families that demand services and care for their special family members but refuse to practice or heed any advice.
I have two personal stories. My first experience with a gun in the home was when my little brother decided he wanted to learn to hunt. He got a gun, took safety courses offered by NRA. The first family argument he took it out and pointed it at my brother. Guns represent a sense of power and as my law enforcement friend told me, that sense of power is seductive. Secondly, a friend's husband had brain cancer and the treatment made him violent. She and her children snuck his weapon collection out of the home and into a locked closet of an uncle in another town. Their patient never remembered his gun collection but continued to get more violent. When managing care,keeping firearms around is a chance should never be taken.
There's a disease of power in this country because guns have replaced personal wit and character. The NRA sells guns with the simple solution to personal power.

+10 # hammermann 2012-12-24 07:44

Once me (13?) and a friend wanted to ask our reclusive mansion neighbor something. Their hill was the neighborhood sledding hill- public property, but they were never really seen. They didn't answer, but the door was open, so we wandered in, calling out, but nobody was around as we explored the strange but familiar house. In a bedside dresser drawer, we found a big revolver, and, being punk NE kids who had never even seen a pistol, dearly wanted to take. We didn't- who knows what trouble we would have have gotten into, but I wish we had. 2 or 3 years later, the guy blew his brains out with that gun. Suicides are 2x more common than murders- that's whom you are probably gonna shoot, not the mythical one-armed man.

+12 # Glen 2012-12-24 07:50

Yes, this story does illustrate human weakness and moments of clarity that not all people with a gun in their hand will experience.

My little story is of being shot next to my eye with a bb gun by a cousin who was completely indifferent to what he had done. The play and the rowdy tempers that can flair can easily be a precursor to the next stage of real rage with a real gun.

Then there are the two little boys who found their father's pistol in the glove compartment of the car, and the little brother was killed. Jeb was his name. No words will describe the brother's lifelong guilt and the sorrow.

+3 # sadylady 2012-12-24 10:35

Wonderful! Your story touched me and pointed up the mindless danger of our present gun laws. That poor unhappy kid, who dredged up such insight and courage at the last minute! No one, especially our children, should have to depend upon the wisdom of a child to save her from catastrophe. That is supposed to be the province of our laws. My God, it's terrifying to think of the extent of the tragedy that was so narrowly averted! And to think of how many times it is not!

+5 # reiverpacific 2012-12-24 13:20

A recent local (north Oregon Coast) incident, illustrates further how frightening guns really are in their ubiquitous presence in the US is.
A small boy found a high-powered rifle abandoned in a Cinema seat in the city of Tillamook with the SAFETY OFF!
The kid had the sense to not touch the weapon but went and told his dad, who in turn called the police. But imagine how many kids might have messed with this lethal object planted with what looked like lethal intent by some deranged copycat in the immediate wake of the Connecticut massacre.
Gosh, is the equally deranged NRA goin' to arm not only teachers and have armed guards in schools but tool-up cinema employees too? It'd save people having to go to the movies to watch violence -they could just have shooting matches in the aisles and over the seats. The last one standing gets a free super-sized drink and popcorn!

+2 # Glen 2012-12-24 16:39

Speaks to the need to educate kids early about guns. Education is historically a good idea from cars, animals, guns, carving knives, all of it. Education is now more important than ever, sad to say.

+1 # reiverpacific 2012-12-24 20:32

Quoting Glen:

Speaks to the need to educate kids early about guns. Education is historically a good idea from cars, animals, guns, carving knives, all of it. Education is now more important than ever, sad to say.

Exactly!
And it's the same linked reactionary forces who want to destroy public education and make "learning" the realm of the privileged and keep the sacred market forces strong by passing it down through their fortunate spawn.
But there are always rebels and those who insist on looking beyond the box they are born into. They can't keep everybody down!

0 # Glen 2012-12-25 08:27

Yes, you are correct that "they can't keep everybody down", but let's hope those who are seeking other worlds to explore outside their own are responsible along with rebellious. "Teach the children well..."

If a kid has legs long enough to reach the pedals, it is time to learn to drive and understand that vehicle and what makes it run. Those lessons also teach the responsibility of the privilege of driving. And so on in everything possible to teach them. As for schools, it could be there will be group home schooling as there was in communes of the past, should the elites running this country destroy all good things.

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