This July 4th, I Will Gladly Take Billie Joe Armstrong’s American Citizenship

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This July 4th, I Will Gladly Take Billie Joe Armstrong’s American Citizenship

Andrew McDiarmid

If becoming an American citizen was a one-in, one-out proposition, I’d be vying for the spot that Mr. Billie Joe Armstrong plans to vacate.

In a London stadium on Friday, June 24, the lead singer of popular punk rock band Green Day revealed his intention to renounce his U.S. citizenship after the Supreme Court’s ruling on Roe v. Wade. “F*** America,” he told the crowd. “There’s too much f***ing stupid in the world to go back to that miserable f***ing excuse for a country.”

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