{"id":1529031,"date":"2022-06-26T23:19:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T03:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1529031"},"modified":"2022-06-26T23:19:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T03:19:16","slug":"im-renouncing-my-citizenship-punk-rocker-quits-america-over-scotus-abortion-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-renouncing-my-citizenship-punk-rocker-quits-america-over-scotus-abortion-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m Renouncing My Citizenship!\u2019: Punk Rocker Quits America Over SCOTUS Abortion Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fim-renouncing-my-citizenship-punk-rocker-quits-america-over-scotus-abortion-ruling%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1529031&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong announced that he planned to renounce his American citizenship during a Friday evening concert in London, saying that he wasn\u2019t kidding and that he intended to move to the United Kingdom instead.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong, who has never been shy about expressing his political opinions, was responding to the Supreme Court ruling in\u00a0<em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/em>, which <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/this-is-not-over-biden-reacts-to-the-end-of-roe\/\">overturned<\/a> landmark abortion decisions in both\u00a0<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Planned Parenthood v. Casey<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cF*** America, I\u2019m f****** renouncing my citizenship,\u201d lead vocalist and guitarist for Green Day @billiejoe\u00a0said, as he called the US a \u2018miserable f****** excuse for a country.\u2019 Hey Billie Joe\u2014this is the country that made your career,\u201d @jules31415 tweeted, sharing video of Armstrong\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cF*** America, I\u2019m f****** renouncing my citizenship,\u201d lead vocalist and guitarist for Green Day <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billiejoe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@billiejoe<\/a> said, as he called the US a \u201cmiserable f****** excuse for a country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hey Billie Joe\u2014this is the country that made your career.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eDVQzxseJm\">pic.twitter.com\/eDVQzxseJm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Julia \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Jules31415) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jules31415\/status\/1541211754511958016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018F*** America, I\u2019m f***ing renouncing my citizenship, I\u2019m f***ing coming here,\u201d Armstrong announced at the beginning of the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s too much f***ing stupid in the world to go back to that miserable f****** excuse for a country,\u201d he continued, and he paused for a moment as the crowd cheered. \u201cOh, I\u2019m not kidding, you\u2019re going to get a lot of me in the coming days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFox Across America\u201d radio host and comedian Jimmy Faila responded to Armstrong\u2019s comments in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimmyfailla\/status\/1541140672450789376\">tweet<\/a>, saying, \u201cGreen Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong says he\u2019s renouncing citizenship and moving to the UK over the repeal of Roe V Wade. Someone should probably tell him Europe has much stricter abortion limits than the U.S. does. Actually, on second thought \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe good news just keeps pouring in. Bye bye loser,\u201d @catturd2 added.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The good news just keeps pouring in. \ud83d\ude02Bye bye loser. <\/p>\n<p>Green Day Rocker Billie Joe Armstrong Renouncing His Citizenship over Roe Reversal: \u2018F**k America\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hgGUjzYFTw\">https:\/\/t.co\/hgGUjzYFTw<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BreitbartNews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Catturd \u2122 (@catturd2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/catturd2\/status\/1541127841911189504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Attendees at Friday\u2019s show also claimed that Armstrong yelled \u201cf*** the Supreme Court of America\u201d before opening the band\u2019s hit song \u201cAmerican Idiot\u201d \u2014 which he has said was written out of frustration with political leadership in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>He has previously performed in front of a backdrop that read \u201cF*** Ted Cruz,\u201d and a couple of tracks from the album \u201cAmerican Idiot\u201d \u2014 released in September of 2004 \u2014 were written to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiox.co.uk\/artists\/green-day\/american-idiot-single-story-meaning-lyrics\/\">critique<\/a> of the politicians and media who colored public perception of the war in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would never think of American Idiot as being about the Bush administration specifically,\u201d Armstrong told The Spin at the time. \u201cIt\u2019s about the confusion of where we\u2019re at right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">\u201cThe world\u2019s in a confused state,\u201d bassist Mike Dirnt added. \u201cI\u2019m pissed off, and I\u2019m angry, and I feel like I\u2019m not fully represented.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong announced that he planned to renounce his American citizenship during a Friday evening concert in London, saying that he wasn\u2019t kidding and that he intended to move to the United Kingdom instead. 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