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Joe Erlinger, president of McDonald’s USA, was speaking at the Wall Street Journal‘s Global Food Forum in Chicago earlier this week. When asked if the burger would be returning to US menus, he replied: “We actually tested the McPlant, and I asked the team to test the McPlant in two very different markets. And so they chose San Francisco and Dallas, and I said: ‘Perfect.’”

He went on to say that the product was “not successful” in either markets. “I don’t think the US consumer is coming to McDonald’s looking for the McPlant or other plant-based proteins,” he added.

Joe Erljnger sounds like an utter moron.

San Francisco and Dallas are probably the absolute worst places to attempt to sell a plant-based burger at McDonald’s, for opposite reasons. You need to test it in markets where there are not any built-in feelings about meat and/or meat alternatives.

You don’t need a McPlant in San Francisco, and you don’t buy a McPlant in Dallas. Both have strong restaurant markets with heavy competition. If you’re at a McDonald’s in San Francisco or Dallas, it’s because you’re desperate for cheap food and you hate yourself.

They should have tested it in places like Milwaukee, Atlanta, or Albany.

Yeah, we probably won’t even notice, even if we hadn’t been extinct for millions of years.

The front fell off.

I always kind of hated that bit, because it seemed so unrealistic. And here we are.

Life imitates art.

It’s amazing to me that “he sounds feeble” is worse than “everything he said wasn’t true.”

It actually doesn’t have to be a nightmare for anyone. The rich can have perfectly pleasant lives while everyone is provided for. It’s just not the most profitable situation for the rich. To have their best life, everyone else must be miserable.

Are we expecting these customers to knowthe difference? I’m over here formulating a business plan, so let me know please.

There’s the NPVIC which would cut the electoral college out of the process entirely.

But how would they know the difference?

Donny said a lot of dumb things. His numbers don’t go down. His followers are devoted to him, and we have to beat them because they are horrible people.

I mean, I get nosebleeds some times. Am I throwing away profits?

One guy is slightly hoarse.

The other is a delusional fascist.

So basically both sides the same.

Where do you think we are?

They don’t need to win the legal battles. Just getting to court is their victory.

Maybe, but there is a significant Jewish population in New York for whom no other issues matter. So you’d have to be an excellent politician to sell that line after you’ve already used the “Z” word. Bowman is not an excellent politician. He seems like a decent human being, in over his head and unprepared to defend his positions from all sides. I wish he was better, because we need more progressives in leadership positions, and the centrists will use this to continue to sell the line that progressives can’t win elections.

Nah, China already knows everything Americans do on computers.

The problem is the Wolf Amendment, a 2011 law that requires the FBI to review any scientific cooperation with China to assure that no sensitive national security information is leaked.

He doesn’t strike me as a particularly thoughtful or talented politician, but the situation in Gaza is particularly fraught. Nuance doesn’t fit into a campaign slogan, and you’d have to be better at this to thread the needle between Zionism and anti-Semitism. I’m certain he would have preferred to make the primary about domestic issues, but his opponent wanted to make it about Israel/Palestine.

He pulled it because he locked himself out of the room. He went the wrong way, and couldn’t get back in to the vote in time. The Republicans were trying to pull a fast one, and he did manage to delay it, but the ends don’t justify the means.

It was a stupid thing to do, but the real damage to his image was in trying to lie about it and coverit up. If he had said, from the beginning, “the Republicans were trying some bullshit and it was the only way I could stop them” then you could plausibly make that argument. I would still disagree, but I could respect that he did what he thought he had to do.

Ok, I’m as progressive as it gets, but Bowman was done after the fire alarm stunt. Voters in his district didn’t forget about that bullshit. Worse than that, he revealed that he was kind of an idiot in his attempts to explain his behavior.

Yes, all of the things about his opponent are troubling. The DNC is not on our side, and we need more progressives at every level of government. But we also need better politicians at every level of government. I’d rather have progressive morons than centrist who is competent, but either is better than a conservative, and the moron might not win a general election.