**US POLITICS MEGATHREAD**

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AITA for thinking the Supreme Court just speedran the end of the Republic?

So my feed is blowing up because SCOTUS just dropped a new ruling that basically says, “Yeah, the President is a king now, good luck peasants.” The TL;DR is: They ruled that the commander-in-chief can order the assassination of a political rival on 5th Avenue with zero criminal liability, as long as a staffer calls it a “core constitutional duty.” The majority opinion was apparently written in crayon by a Federalist Society ghost.

Meanwhile, the dissent is just a screenshot of the Constitution with a bunch of crying emojis and a caption that reads, “I am once again asking you to read the 14th Amendment.”

The internet is in shambles. Boomers on Facebook are posting “I VOTED FOR TRUMP AND I’D DO IT AGAIN” memes over a picture of the Supreme Court building burning down. Twitter is just a live feed of constitutional law professors sobbing into their $15 lattes. And Reddit? We’re arguing about whether Luigi Mangione (RIP king) could re-animate as a zombie to fix this.

Honestly, at this point, I’m just hoping the vending machine at the local 7-Eleven successfully secedes. It would have a better track record of protecting individual rights. 🤡

Edit: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger! My great-great-grandchildren will read this as the official historical record of when America finally jumped the shark.