Welcome to FARTlandia

In a recent Substack post, Bizarro creator Dan Piraro talked about how the US doesn’t have a name so much as a description — we’re called the United States of America. Think about it. It's also only accurate if we’re talking about the collection of our taxes. Apart from that, on what are we united? 

Piraro goes on to say:

My guess is we are not too far away from our wannabe king suggesting we name the country after him. We may all be living in the Forever Authoritarian Republic of Trump before long. The only upside of that would be that people the world over would doubtless refer to it as “FART.”  (source) 

At this point, after all we’ve done to immigrants, Venezuelan fishermen, Iranians, our own citizens, and the whole rest of the world, FART or FARTlandia seems like an absurdly gentle, understated name. After yesterday's taxpayer funded, white trash, fascist, tacky-as-all-hell birthday party for the ancient, insane, pedophilic, loaded diaper of a president, FARTlandia is immensely appropriate (if understated) though.

Dan Piraro, Bizarro

This collection of states and territories that are considered to be the “United States” are anything but united. I mean, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, and the Dakotas probably have a lot in common. New England and New York State are almost always on the same wavelength but NOT with those previously mentioned states. 

California, Oregon, and Washington could stand together. Would the Deep South, Texas and Oklahoma join with them? //snort// Not in a trillion years or with a gun to their heads. How about the Midwest? //shrugs// It might make sense to break up and form half a dozen independent countries.

Here’s the thing though, most of the gerrymandered-to-hell-and-back Republican states are taker states. That is, they receive more in federal funding than they pay in federal taxes. How long would the new countries of Texahoma, Southlandia or YeeHawistan survive without California, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, buckos? Seriously now.

Also, will liberal people stay in a new country that’s hostile to them? I mean, I get it – you were born and raised in Texas. It’s home. You’re used to being around a lot of folks with vastly different morals and ethics but NOW those differences are being made into law. Abortion is already illegal in Texas. Maternal mortality rose 56% in the first full year of the state's ban. The state does NOT care if women die.

Mothers living in states that banned abortion are nearly 2x as likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth, or soon after giving birth, compared to mothers living in supportive states where abortion was legal and accessible  (source) 

What other inane, insane, shortsighted, control-freaking, micro-dicked laws will the white Christofascist moldy potatoes enact once they have half a chance. Yee haw!

According to the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security scale, Texas comes in at 41 out of 51 (50 states plus the District of Columbia) on women’s equality.

The US WPS Index captures key aspects of women’s status at home, in the community, and in the economy and society. The index is structured around three basic dimensions: inclusion (economic, social, political); justice (formal laws and informal discrimination); and security (at the individual and community levels). The index and its 12 indicators, grouped into these three dimensions, provide a standardized, quantitative, and transparent measure for ranking all states.

If the US becomes balkanized, the only women left in the former red states will be the ones who were too poor or otherwise lacking a help network to get out. Ah, who knows. Maybe modern day Scythian warrior women (AKA Amazons) or Onna-musha warriors will form up. Possibly some Valkyries can get involved. Ya know they were, maybe still are, thought of as death demons, spirits of carnage. 

Way cool, eh? 

 In any case, Happy Monday from FARTlandia!  

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Stray Thoughts

I’m sure you can agree — the world is grossly out of balance. Drastic measures must be taken to realign terrestrial and cosmic forces

Here’s an idea — we sacrifice wealth hoarders to appease the gods who, naturally, reside within volcanoes. The gods get snackish, don’t ya know. They must be fed! You may have read that they nosh on ambrosia and drink nectar.

C’mon! Have you even met the gods? They are not sitting down to snarf some milky chilled fruit salad with a cocktail that only a hummingbird would enjoy. Fuck no!

CLEARLY they’re jonesing for some real junk food. The gods are WAY overdue for some some high caliber crap. You know, the celestial equivalent of loaded nachos, fried mozzarella sticks, deep dish pizza with EVERYTHING. They need to be placated, soothed, and shit before they get cranky and send us another Trump family. Know what I’m saying?

So then — we’ll start the sacrificial snacking with Musk. Up the mountain he goes.

We’ll convince Leon to do a press conference on the edge of Lewotobi Laki-Laki in Indonesia (last volcanic activity June 2-10) and maybe he’ll, ya know, slip (OR, for the greater good of the planet, selflessly jump into the about-to-erupt volcano. //SNORT// yeah, like that would ever happen) thus saving humankind.
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Yesterday, for some reason, I was trying to come up with the name of an actress. I was telling Jen some story or another — tring to anyway. The actress’s name fully escaped me. Finally I said, she looked a lot like that woman who played Princess Leia or, ya know, like Carrie Fisher. Very similar.

Jen gently, slowly, carefully replied, aren’t they the same person?

Wut? (I’m fuckin’ eloquent as shit…I’m tellin’ you!)

I was only remembering Fisher as a writer, script doctor, memoirist and for her not-Leia comedic acting roles. Also as Paul Simon’s partner and second (?) wife about whom he wrote some of his fab songs.

Again, DOH!!!

By the by: 

When asked what was her "best" moment in the Star Wars saga up to this point, Carrie Fisher answered:

“I had a lot of fun killing Jabba the Hutt. They asked me on the day if I wanted to have a stunt double kill Jabba. No! That's the best time I ever had as an actor. And the only reason to go into acting is if you can kill a giant monster

Damn, I miss her.
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Something we can all use — it’s the Apocalypse Early Warning System 

A new website tracking private jet movements is drawing attention across aviation and tech circles after its creator claimed spikes in business aviation traffic could serve as an “early warning system” for global catastrophe.

The project, called the Apocalypse Early Warning System, was created by artist and programmer Kyle McDonald. It uses live ADS-B aircraft-tracking data to monitor private jet activity worldwide.

McDonald’s premise is simple — if somewhat tongue-in-cheek. When billionaires, political insiders, or corporate elites suddenly begin leaving major cities en masse aboard private aircraft, the website assumes something serious may be about to happen. (source) 

Fascinating.
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Blood sport cage match on his front lawn. Fucking guy is celebrating his birthday like a goddamn Roman emperor.
~ Marko Kloos 

There’s an 80% chance of rain in DC tonight and a 55% chance of thunderstorms. IF the thunder god exists he could do the world the most awesomest kindness. I only mention it, Thor, but the event starts at 8pm eastern standard time. K?

Clusterfuck 
     noun 
a disastrously mishandled, chaotic situation or undertaking

Trump and his Cabinet are a clusterfuck of unqualified, trash-brained, greedheaded sewer clowns.

If I Had A Trillion

Uhhhh…NO I would NOT!

Hoarding wealth is a mental illness every bit as much as holding onto stacks and stacks of old newspapers, magazines, utility bills, clothes that you don’t/can’t wear anymore, cupboards full of plastic grocery bags, 20 years worth of Christmas and birthday cards. It's keeping shit you can't possibly use to the point that you get lost in your own life. 

Which reminds me … gotta Marie Kondo my damn closet this weekend. 

With that trillion dollars Elon Musk now has, he could pay off all medical debt in the United States. Homelessness and poverty could be eliminated. Our system of education could be vastly improved and expanded. With that much dough we could fund a complete move to clean energy and stop destroying the only planet we have to live on. How about putting those big buckos behind pandemic prevention? Wouldn’t it be awesome to NOT have another COVID, HIV, Spanish Flu, Smallpox, SARS or H1N1/09 pandemic.

But no. Rich fucks don’t want to do good for the society they make bank off of. Fuck them poors, eh?

Trump and Musk’s slashing of government programs that actually help people was, of fucking course, all about lining their own filthy, slaveringly rapacious pockets. Leon, like his buddy Pedo, is a greedheaded, grifting, incompetent fraud.

Trump, Bezos, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, the Walton families and the rest of the billionaires and mulitmillionaires are allowed to hoard wealth WAY beyond their needs and any of their descendants needs or wants and they’re lauded for it. DISGUSTING!

What are they doing with all that money? How much stuff is enough? How many homes can you live in? How many cars can you drive? How many gourmet meals can you consume? How many luxury tours of the world can you take? How many Klimts, Picassos, Basquiats, and Monets can you own? How many businesses can you truly effectively, competently run and enjoy? How many people can you own?

If you, Mr. and Ms. Not Überwealthy American, are crying about your tax dollars being used to provide an assist to folks in need of food, housing, and healthcare but not objecting to Pedo and his crew of mondo privileged, insatiably swinish fat-cats allocating OUR taxpayer money to pay for billion dollar+ bullshit wars, gold plated foofaraw, fraud riddled contracts for buddies, murderous goon squads and concentration camps, boy howdy mes amis, you need to invest in some quality therapy STAT.

AND speaking of wasted wads of our hard-earned taxpayer buckos, there’s all our dough ($60 mil+) going to Pedo’s birthday jamboree. The Jeff Epstein Ultimate Fighting Cage Match is scheduled for tomorrow night on the WhiteTrash House lawn. What’s next? Dog fights and strippers? Gee, ya think Pedo’s trying to turn all of the US into Epstein Island? Looks like it. 

While the Pedophile in Chief celebrates his 80th birthday (will he sleep through the fights — probably), Texas has announced yet another case of screwworms. Eight of the nine screwworm cases have been in Texas. No surprise there. These are just the cases that we the people have been informed of. How many more are there? With Brainworm Bobby in charge of Health and Human Services and Greg Abattoir as the state’s governor, you KNOW we’re not getting the full skinny.

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says there’s no need to panic — the screwworm does not currently present a food safety issue. Gee, gosh. I’m so relieved. Pedo’s junk drawer of a Cabinet, filled with utterly unqualified suck-ups, mentally banjaxed bozos, and überwealthy idiots who paid to play, is always so reliably well informed and truthful. HAH!

I'm sure Texas Governor Abbott is right on top of it all too. You remember him, right. Greg considers it fair play to seed the Gulf with razor wire in order to murder migrants – brown people. He sees women as second class citizens AT BEST and Black people as barely human. So, the governor doesn’t give a good goddamn about your health or, if you’re a farmer, your herd’s health, unless of course you’re wealthy, white, and a frequent BIG donor. If you live in Texas, it might be a good time to consider a plant based diet.

By the by, Brooke is the very same brainiac who said “Climate change hysteria is political cover to export American jobs and manufacturing to places like Mexico and China.”

I’m sure you’ll pardon me for not believing a fucking word out of her pedophile worshipping mouth.

Zombie Memories

Morning Sun, Edward Hopper

I’ve mentioned my 50th high school class reunion coming up, haven’t I? I dunno if it already happened or what.

 An acquaintance on Facebook has been making caricatures and other memorial graphics for classmates using AI. He’s been posting them in his feed which, apparently, a lot of our class follow. Apart from my big-ass issues with AI generated art, which is a rant for another day, this is really thoughtful of Jim. He seems like a truly nice, genuine, gregarious guy. Putting aside my own experiences and feelings, I can imagine that, for him and, possibly, a lot of other people with whom we went to school, this final reunion’s a big fucking deal.

Automat, Edward Hopper

I don’t feel like I’m a part of my graduating class. The only friend I have from way back then is in a different year. The few friends who are actually from my class, I met on Facebook decades after graduation. Seeing Jim’s Facebook feed and getting the occasional reunion email update feels a little voyeuristic – like I’m reading a stranger’s mail.

I've also been experiencing an odd resurgence of rage over the mean girls who tormented me throughout high school. Please don’t say ‘Oh get over yourself — that was 50+ years ago.’ Goddammit, I KNOW THAT. Do you honestly think I want to be carrying around anger and sadness over what some gang of absolute low watt twinkies said and did 50 years ago? Do I think about those girls (old grandmothers now) daily? Weekly? Once a year on Rosh Hashanah or Bodhi Day? Ahhhh, no. The reunion served as a trigger to unearth these zombie emotions which I obvs need to put to a final death. How do you kill zombies? Cut off their heads?

Early Sunday Morning, Edward Hopper

I’ve NOT been thrilled AT ALL to have memories of my high school years and these total twatzillas back in my head. Life at home — with my ultra violent, narcissistic brother, wild older sister, and my uncaring mother, freshly diagnosed with NF2 — was hard enough. I desperately needed and wanted school to be a respite, a haven from home. The mean girls, with their stalking, bullying, prank phone calls, and smear campaigns ensured that this wouldn’t be. As did a half dozen teachers. A few male teachers actually made humiliating comments about the size of my ta tas in front of other students. Once, in front of the entire orchestra class. This was a small town in the early/mid ‘70s — imagine how that would go over today. Visualize lead balloons and law suits.

Shit was so bad back then, I felt so alone, that I joined a Methodist church group, naively believing church kids would be warm, kind, and welcoming. Ya know, I’d find friends there. Ah…NO. These kids were every bit as judgmental as the mean girls and the creepy, hypercritical teachers. Kind and welcoming? Only in a plastic covered couch kind of a way.  

Giorgio de Chirico

One girl, who went on to become a Methodist minister (!!!) was relaxed and smooth with everyone else. With me, she instantly became formally polite and pointedly distant — like I was a plague carrier, a demonic being OR just too, too low class to be within her presence. It was weird. Oddly enough, decades later, she sent me a Facebook friend request. It quickly became clear that she’d either forgotten who I was or sent it by accident. How do I know? In response to a direct, friendly, non-intrusive question, she again pulled this same frozen, polite but get-the-fuck-away-from-me tone (which she doesn’t take with anyone else). Weird. Last time I checked, I do NOT have the plague. NF2 yes. Plague, no. Also? Not a demon.

Ya know, I know I was an awkward kid and maybe a little too fluorescent for my classmates. Sadly, I didn’t have the confidence or self-esteem to laugh at the mean girls. I was vulnerable — an easy target. I was a solid four years away from being able to confidently deliver killer Jasmine Crockett style slams. “Bleach blonde, bad-built, butch body?” Man, that would’ve slayed! Oh, to time travel and deliver flaming kill shots. 

Point of the story — obvs I’m the opposite of nostalgic about those years. I’m surprised that, 50 years later, I’ve been having these big feelings about a reunion I’m not going to.

Aside from the resurrected rage, I’m envious of people who have happy memories of childhood hometowns. My family moved so much (due to Daddy’s academic pursuits and chasing a tenure track teaching gig) that I can’t lay claim to a childhood hometown. 

Nighthawks, Edward Hopper

My favorite place was Townsend, Massachusetts. We lived there for a year when Daddy taught at Fitchburg State College. My fantasy is that we stayed there. I graduated high school, went on to UMass Amherst, then moved to Cambridge with my chums.

In real life, I DID move to Cambridge with pals. It was just later and via a much more circuitous route.

High school wasn’t nonstop hell BUT close enough. I’m happy that Jim’s experience was different and he's getting to see all of his old friends. It's good that not all of us have zombie memories.

Brain Blur

 My brain is fuzzy, my eyes hurt, and I don’t feel like thinking this morning. I blame the humidity – also brain tumors. They’re an awfully convenient scapegoat. Sometimes, often enough, they’re the perp, the devious malefactor, the ravening horde looking to steal my good health (what’s left of it anyhoo), creativity, and critical thinking abilities. Not today though. My most recent MRIs showed that my meningioma farm is fairly stable. So today is about the weather, being old, tired, cranky, maybe a little dehydrated, and being in need of more CAKE dammit!

So then, in lieu of deep thoughts, here are some cartoons. Yur welcome. ‘scuse me now, I’m gonna take a nap.

He spent day after day feeling uneasy and muddled, like someone who has mistakenly swallowed a thick swatch of cloud.
~ Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.
~ Virginia Woolf

Tragic Girls Katie Mansfield 

Tom Gauld 

Danial Ryan 

*sigh* as do we all, you absolute moldy turnip. *sigh*

This Modern World Tom Tomorrow 

Wrong Hands John Atkinson 

This F*cking Guy

Looks like it’s been a very bad week so far for the elderly, ever decaying, pedophilic, orange shellacked, malignant narcissist, huh?

Pedo's soiled Depends are all in a wad because New York City booed the fuck out of him and it’s been broadcast worldwide. He looks like the loser fool he is and everyone’s laughing at him. 

There was also that interview with an actual journalist, Kristen Welker, who performed actual journalism instead of the usual fawning interview fellatio. Pedo did NOT like that!

The Kennedy Center has begun the process of removing references to Pedo from the building, email signatures, letterhead and all other documents. Friday, June 12th, is the court ordered final deadline. 

And he’s on the losing end of a bunch of other lawsuits. It's a rough, no fun week for LOSER boy!

What’s a loser fool who can’t stop humiliating himself on the world’s stage to do?  Why…puff himself up full of bullshit, bile, and Hollywood B-movie villain posturing, fire off a post on his sad little Twitter knock off, Truth Toilet, and take a nap in a Cabinet meeting. Of course!

Trump says Iran ‘took too long’ to negotiate and now will ‘pay the price’

The US president has restated claims that Iran’s military is a “complete and total mess” and like its navy and air force “doesn’t even exist anymore”.“They have been completely defeated. Iran is all talk and no action. The Bully of the Middle East is DEAD!!!” he said in a post on Truth Social.

“They’ve taken too long to negotiate a deal that would have been great for them, now they will have to pay the price!!!” he added, without elaborating. (source) 

WHAT a clown. Does 'Vanky replacement, Natalie Harp, know that Pedo needs a new binky and a diaper change? If not, someone ought to text her – she’s sleeping on her very important babysitting job.

If you want to understand how to fix a problem in the world, you have to ask who is profiting from the problem. Not who is suffering from it.
~ Dr. Amos Wilson 

A new poll by the European Council on Foreign Relations thinktank has come out and, boy howdy, we’re just not a popular lot right now. Absolutely no fucking surprise there.

European trust in the US has crashed to new lows. Europeans do not expect America under Donald Trump to protect them, and they recognise the need for more autonomous security (even funded by common debt). But they do think the relationship will likely improve after Trump and want to leave the door open to that possibility.
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This shift comes after Trump threatened to annex Greenland; attacked Iran without a plan then demanded Europeans resolve the resulting problems; pressured Kyiv without delivering a Ukraine-Russia peace; dismissed US commitments to NATO and announced withdrawals of some US troops from Europe. (source) 

Go to the link and look at the charts. Of the countries noted, the US’s status as ally took the deepest dive in Estonia, the UK, and Denmark (of fucking course). Our ally status was already in the basement in Spain, Italy, France, Bulgaria, Switzerland, and Germany.

NObody likes Trump. I’m betting Putin and Kim Jong-un aren’t even taking his calls. Of course, if I looked like a rotting orange bundt cake wearing a Temu Farrah Fawcett wig, and spewed grandiose, delusional stream of consciousness imaginings, I suspect my pals might not take my calls either. 

Nah – they would. I'm good for a laugh here and there. Also, I'm cute as fuck. OH, yes I AM!

How NOT to Start Your Day

Honestly, you’d think I’d know by now that I shouldn’t open the news first thing in the AM. I should ease into my day – preferably with carrot cake and a nice piping hot cup of tea. Right? 

Maybe scroll through some cute cat pics. Enjoy a few videos of elephant families and then a few more. Maybe check into Facebook – which is mostly ads now but I still see occasional posts from friends. I scroll Threads for some fun tales – get some grins. Read a chapter of my new Murderbot book. THEN, only then, I might be ready to face the horrors of the what’s happening in the world.

Did I do that this morning? Fuck no. First thing I read was a front-page article in Al Jazeera about the sexual abuse, rape and torture of Palestinian prisoners in Israel. The report comes with a warning – This story contains descriptions of sexual assault that some readers may find disturbing. “Disturbing” is a profound understatement. I won’t quote any of the descriptions of the horrifying, brutal, dehumanizing, absolutely demonic abuses performed by the Israeli soldiers. They make the reports of the US military’s savage torture, rape, and murders of prisoners at Abu Ghraib seem almost tame. 

Eyad Baba

Allegations of the sexual abuse of Palestinians in Israeli prisons are not new – they date back decades. But launching its genocidal war on Gaza following the Hamas-led attack of October 2023, Israel appears to have increased the use of rape as a weapon of war, according to the Al Jazeera investigation and various reports by the UN and leading rights groups.
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“Surviving sexual violence and torture in general, and rape is brutal,” Albanese (UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories) said. “Imagine when it’s done on a large-scale systemically to a population. It means to destroy the people as such. (source) 

And piss drunk, brain fried, always posturing, mysogynistic, micro dicked, white supremacist, Christofascist Pete wants to further integrate our military with Israel’s. Mind you, it’s not just this deranged nazi clownfuck who’s promoting this. 

At a time when the American public is expressing unprecedented levels of distrust in the Israeli government, Congress just proposed tying the U.S. to the Israeli military more than ever before.

Buried in the House's version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) released on Tuesday, is section 224, entitled “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.” The provision would arguably do more to intertwine the U.S. military with the Israeli military than the more than $200 billion (inflation adjusted) in military assistance Israel has received from the U.S. since its founding in 1948. (source) 

The House is set to vote on this horror show, this marriage to another ruthless genocidal power before the summer recess. When’s that? Saturday, June 27 through Sunday, July 12, 2026. Call your rep – demand they vote NO on the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). As a nation we need to be divorced from and no-fucking-contact with genocidal rapists. From within and without.

We have to purge the bastards in our own country and NOT hook up with nations who think *gee willikers* training my guard dog to rape prisoners is really, really fun! (yes, they did and are doing exactly this – read the article). 

I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.
~ Primo Levi 

Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity. 
~ Ambrose Bierce 

Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world. 
~ Munia Khan

News and Memes

Supposedly there’s a ceasefire going on in the Middle East. Words used to have meaning – I miss that. I guess that’s just SO 20th century.

As of 12:30 GMT Israel launched attacks across Iran. There were explosions reported in Tehran, Tabriz, Karaj and Isfahan. These followed a wave of missiles that Iran fired towards northern Israel in retaliation for Israel repeatedly violating the ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel says they’re only indiscriminately bombing Lebanon because Hezbollah is there.

How soon before the reason for the bombings, the murders of innocents is “He keeps touching my sleeve!”, "She's breathing on me!”, "They looked at me funny!”, "He started it!”

Meanwhile,  The clearly decaying Clownfuck Pedophile in Chief is screeching on his little Twitter knockoff for Israel and Iran to just immediately stop “shooting.” Can you just hear Pedo stomping his foot, huffing and puffing? Ah, given those intensely swollen cankles (when’s the last time you saw him standing) I doubt he’s up to stomping his feet anymore.

Anyway, it's truly hilarious – like anyone's paying him serious attention anymore.

If you haven’t read yesterday’s Heather Cox Richardson’s post PLEASE DO.

Amongst other things, she talks about how Scott Pelley, a thirty-seven year CBS correspondent, fired last week from 60 Minutes, outed CBS news director and Trump asslicker (and Goebbels wannabe) Bari Weiss over her attempt to rewrite reality.

Hours before airing, he explained, after the story had been approved, Weiss sent an email to Pelley’s boss asking them to make the protesters look more violent and to say that before an officer shot her, Renee Good was driving toward him.

But she wasn’t. Pelley continued: “On the video, you see the officer standing slightly off the front of the car. And you clearly see Ms. Good’s wheels turned completely as far as they will go, away from the officer. But he shoots her in the head, kills her, and says something about her that I can’t repeat in polite company.

…”The video showed that the officer wasn’t standing in front of the car and she wasn’t driving toward him, but that’s what the president said about that, and that’s the way she wanted it described.” (source)

Weiss’ Wikipedia page claims she’s a journalist. I can think of more accurate terms. Just for starters – fabulist, prevaricator, mythomaniac, deceiver, fantasist, and liar.

You’ve surely read about how unpopular Vanky and her partner in crime, Jared, are in Albania? You know, their plans to pave paradise and build condos, malls, hotels – turn it into a playland for the überwealthy?

One of the biggest sources of controversy surrounds the project's potential impact on environmentally sensitive areas.

The planned developments overlap with the Karaburun-Sazan marine national park and the Vjosa-Narta protected wetlands, regions known for their rich biodiversity and importance to migratory bird populations. (source) 

Yeah, fuck the planet – there’s money to be made!

Ivanka, who is definitely as dim, greedheaded and every bit as much of a liar as her father, described Sazan Island as a "private island" she and Jared had “discovered,” despite it being sovereign Albanian territory. 

Environmental groups from Albania and elsewhere in Europe condemned the work, with one prominent local group charging that long-protected habitats are being "irreversibly destroyed."

Albania's state anti-corruption agency has confirmed it opened an investigation related to the project but has not disclosed details. (source) 

Protests are huge and charged. Also, the EU has weighed in on the matter now. 

Basically, anything with the Trump name, or just associated with that name, is suspect and as appealing as radioactive warthog fecal matter.