Monday's Mind-Boggling Absurdities: How Not to Protect Free Speech in One Short Video, and Elmer Fudd Goes Hunting, so be Vewy, Vewy Quiet

I’m going to start today’s piece with a question for the group: What in the world do you think this tanker truck is carrying?

If you said “gasoline or diesel fuel,” you are about 99.9% likely to be right. After all, it does have a “Racetrack” logo on its side, and the full clip literally shows the thing pulling into a Racetrack gas station towards the end.

In between, the narrator of the video spins a quite amazing conspiracy theory about how it might be mercury, which is about the dumbest thing I ever heard. I won’t try to explain his reasoning because, well, it’s pretty inexplicable, but I think it has something to do with mercury’s ability to dissolve gold or something, and a deep state conspiracy to destroy Sarasota for nefarious reasons.

Here’s what this actually is: It’s a police escort helping to get a gas or diesel tanker truck to a gas station in the Tampa/Sarasota, Florida area so folks trying to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Milton’s landfall last week could get the hell out of there.