This Week in Stupid

For the Week of 8 October 2025

Wednesdays here at the Phil Elmore/Samurai Press Substack, we look at the dumbest nonsense the Internet has to offer. Let’s dive right in with… well, allow me to gesture vaguely at everything.

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This week in the world of the dumb, we talk about people who are traveling to the same gigantic shopping mall in their dreams (or so they think), the lunatic who “pranked” people by stabbing them with syringes, the reality of Democrats desperately wishing murder on their opponents, the question of to whom you give a ticket when a self-driving car screws up, an “influencer” who died from getting “cat eye” surgery, and much more dumb nonsense.