It features broad, unsubtle references to our current president.
It camps outside of a chaotic, near-dystopian scene at the Republican National Convention.
He alsohas praisedHugo Chavez.)
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(Scottsdales dry climate contradicts the clammy calescent of New Guinean condensation is a real sentence.)
And sometimes, they expose some of Penns more conspiratorial messages.
But instead, the ghost of a girl hed never known.
(More on that in a moment.)
He calls the Landlord illegitimate, narcissistic, and reflexive.
Because so much of Bobs political messaging so closely resembles Penns, its difficult to distinguish the two.
Bob goes to great pains to emasculate Trump.
Tweet me, bitch.
He asks, Was it really in our interest to trample Charlie Rose?
Then he gets to the meat of his complaint: And whats with this Me Too?
This infantilizing term of the day… Is this a toddlers crusade?
Reducing rape, slut-shaming, and suffrage to reckless childs play?
A platform for accusation impunity?
Due process has lost its sheen?
This is all a little rich, given Penns own past.
(He was accused of, though never arrested for, assaulting Madonna during their marriage, whichhe denies.
In 2016, after Penn sued him, Lee Danielspublicly apologizedfor accusing the actor of hitting women.)
Its also, along with the rest of the novel, rather confounding.
Some people, I think, will really enjoy it, others will loathe it.
And… and that really is what Id like to say about me, you know?
(Well, not just yet, anyway.)
Fortunately, thatsen vogueright now.
There, finally, is something for him to cheer.
