There is no limit to news and opinion sources on the web. If one wishes to dive down a rabbit hole, there are plenty of places to take the plunge. One such rabbit hole is Raw Story. Since last Tuesday’s election, Raw Story has had its figurative hair on fire. It’s an incessant series of caterwauling scribbles announcing the beginning of the end of America. Today's offering began with this: 

Retired fighter pilot Amy McGrath added her name to the list of former military personnel who aren't happy about Fox News weekend host Pete Hegseth as the secretary of defense. But more, she feared the campaign that Hegseth would deploy to bring down his opposition. 

Speaking to a panel of former soldiers, MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace asked how military men and women would view former generals being court-martialed to enact Donald Trump's revenge.

You cannot escape how Raw Story set up the article. McGrath is a fighter pilot, Hegseth is a Fox News host. 

I read the “article,” I watched the embedded video of Wallace and her panel. The article is about an MSNBC sob session with Nicolle Wallace. After I decided to write about this, I spent a few minutes just staring at my monitor. It was as if I had just listened to a room of children, worried that a monster was under the bed. How does one deal with imaginary monsters? You can’t. McGrath was hyperbolic in response to Wallace’s hyperbole. Wallace lit her hair on fire and McGrath predictably followed suit.  

Wallace listed five retired flag officers, Stanley McChrystal, William McRaven, Mark Milley, James Mattis, and John Kelly as targets of Trump’s “revenge." Wallace mentioned Liz Cheney as well. Cheney, Wallace claimed, would be targeted for a “military tribunal” and the aforementioned flag officers returned to active duty so they could be court-martialed. Wallace looked down to read Pete Hegseth’s name - intentionally mispronouncing it as “Hegsmith” -  and wondered if Hegseth would “greenlight something like that.” 

McGrath didn’t push back; instead she leaned into that nonsense, assuring Wallace that “we should have no lack of imagination” of what Trump (and Hegseth) would do.  

I am getting a little fatigued with this line of monsters under the bed. I could be wrong, there might be a monster, but I doubt it. The left continues to ignore that Trump has already been president. He didn’t hold “military tribunals” to prosecute political loudmouths. He didn’t demand generals be court-martialed. There is a bit of irony. One of the links in this Raw Story story was to one of their own articles where they quote Mark Milley advising Trump not to bring back retired flag officers for "punishment." Trump, of course, didn't bring back generals for any punishment. 

The Raw Story author apparently missed the irony - Milley advised Trump not to overreact and Trump didn’t overreact. Nonetheless, Milley did suggest that maybe court-martialing Mike Flynn would be a good idea: 

"Mike Flynn is saying things and doing things that I absolutely fundamentally disagree with on so many levels," Milley said. "Bringing him back on active duty to court martial him and subject him to crimes based on the Uniform Code of Military Justice is a giant step." 

"What Mike Flynn is saying out there is, first of all, he has a right to say it," Milley said. "He's an American citizen and all that. But, arguably, it's inflammatory. It is certainly counter to, you know, many of the values of our country and so on and so forth. He would argue that's the exact opposite, by the way." 

Apparently, Raw Story doesn’t read Raw Story stories, and Milley doesn’t listen to himself. Milley is fine with a politically inspired court-martial for someone he doesn't like, but don't go after Mark Milley for calling Trump a "fascist."    

McGrath and Milley don’t want my advice, but here it is:

I will look under the bed one more time, and when I don’t see a monster, I will tell them. If I do see a monster, I will be the first one to acknowledge a monster under the bed.

But no one is coming to eat your faces, kids. Calm down.