Here's some useless trivia for you. Michael Jackson's first number 1 Billboard hit without his brothers was "Ben", the title song from a movie about a killer rat.
The recording won the 1972 Golden Globe for Best Song and was barely beaten for the 1973 Best Original Song Academy Award by "The Morning After" from The Poseidon Adventure.
None of that has any connection to anything, unless you count Trump getting a call from Ben the killer rat Netanyahu one evening and firing missiles at girl's schools in Iran the morning after. Others might mention Michael and Donald's mutual pal Jeffrey Epstein.
Some of you might be cynical enough to think Ben the killer rat suggested people might forget that mutual pal for a bit if Don would join him and lob a few thousand missiles at Iran. You'd be wrong of course.
First, you've got to remember Ben is a KILLER rat. He's not just nibbling around the edges trying to survive. He's in the heart of the action, down low and up close. He knows what drives Donald Trump.
Ben the killer rat knows what drives Donald isn't fear of his dead pedophile pals. What drives Donald is getting what he wants. And what Donald wants, almost more than anything, is the Nobel Peace Prize. One with his name on it.
Ben TKR reminded DonJohn that he who brings peace to the middle east is he who wins the peace prize established by the man who invented dynamite. What better way to bring peace to the middle east than to drop as much dynamite as humanly possible on Iran.
I know what you're thinking. What moron would go to war as a ploy to get a peace prize? There's an easy answer. The kind of moron who would bankrupt a casino. The kind who thinks there's an Emmy for Best Performance by a President. The one who insists on cold McDonald's for pretty much anyone who visits the White House.
When Ben the killer shared the coordinates of the Supreme Leader's coming whereabouts and whispered "Here my friend, claim your prize" in Donald's ear, he knew he'd get exactly what he wanted with the added bonus of saving a few million dollars worth of drones the American taxpayer paid for.
He was right. The Ayatollah and many of his potential successors are dead. The United States is carrying the weight of crippling Ben TKR's greatest threat besides corruption charges. Iran is striking out against any middle eastern country with friendly relations with the United States which, for Ben, equals missiles not coming at Israel.
What do we get? I had an elementary school teacher who would draw a little circle on the chalkboard and make you stand with your nose in it when you were acting up. You'd come away with chalk on your nose.
I don't think we can expect anything better than that. Oddly, when you bomb the country that produces lots of oil and controls key energy shipping routes, oil prices jump. Bought gas in the last few days? Everything that's transported is now more expensive.
I'd rather have the chalk on my nose.