Michael Moore vows to give up ‘privileges’ of U.S. citizenship in rant

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Michael Moore has had it with America.

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In a fiery rant posted to his website, the Roger & Me filmmaker says he is “completely fed up with recent events that have upset my tranquility.”

“I refuse to live in a country threatened by white supremacy — and I’m not leaving. So we’ve got a problem,” the left-wing Michigan native wrote.

“I cannot in good conscience continue to receive the privileges of ‘full citizenship’ in this land when all of its women and girls have now been, by Court decree, declared official second-class citizens with no rights to their own bodies and conscripted to a life of Forced Birth should they fall pregnant and not want to be,” he added.

Moore’s screed continued with his demand that America “end the mass incarceration of Black Americans” and put an “end to police shooting Black people.”

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The Oscar winner also called on “reparations” to be made for the Black community “for all they currently have to suffer and endure.”

Not finished, Moore, 68, vowed to try and help turf Republicans from office later this year in November’s midterm elections. “The Republican Party has dismantled itself and its remaining rogue elements now exist purely to overturn legitimate election results and overthrow the elected will of the vast majority of the American people. This must be halted without delay or equivocation,” he wrote.

The documentarian didn’t say what privileges he was giving up, but insisted that from now on he’s going to push for abortion rights to be reinstated for all women.

“If you invite me to dinner that’s all I’m gonna talk about,” he wrote. “I won’t stop until Roe is reinstated and 51% of Congress is female.”

Elsewhere, Moore pledged to use his following to get more people to the polls.

“I will help to organize a massive Get Out The Vote drive amongst the millions who follow me on social media,” he said.

Moore also hinted he plans to use his clout to target the economy.

“I will help lead a national strike, in whatever form it needs to take, and if we want to see immediate change, watch what happens when we shut down even 10% of the country. POOF! goes Wall Street! Hit ‘em where it counts.”

On social media, reaction to Moore’s diatribe was split, with some calling him a “treasure” while others called him an “egomaniac.”

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“You won’t live here, but you won’t leave either. I feel like maybe a shrink might help you with that,” one person wrote, with another accusing Moore of being from “the wealthy class.”

Fox News personality Kayleigh McEnany also lashed out at the Bowling for Columbine filmmaker, writing, “I don’t need a sloppy-dressed man telling me, as a woman, how I should think.”

Others said Moore was “virtue signalling” and challenged him to leave America if he doesn’t like living there.

“Michael Moore is worth tens of millions of dollars. He earned his wealth in America by telling us all how awful America supposedly is,” social media editor Oliver Jia wrote. “If he actually thought that other ways of life were superior, he would’ve left decades ago. He has more than enough resources. But he won’t.”

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Moore’s last theatrical release, the 2018 anti-Trump flick Fahrenheit 11/9, was a box office flop. The film, which cost a reported $4 million to $5 million to make before marketing, opened in eighth place.

“Moore is part of the chorus these days, not the ringleader like he seemed to be back when Fahrenheit 9/11 dropped,” box-office analyst Jeff Bock of Exhibitor Relations told The Hollywood Reporter at the time. “Uncovering outlandish tweets and insane, alleged cover-ups is an everyday occurrence when it comes to Trump. Fahrenheit 11/9 felt outdated the day it dropped.”

mdaniell@postmedia.com