What Phil Might Have Predicted

Add Punxsutawney Phil, the weather-predicting rodent, to the list of those who should be grateful for one Donald John Trump and his MAGA movement.

Like Trump and all too many conservatives, Phil had fallen into the web of leftist censorship and selective fact-checking, said web having been ripped asunder by Trump’s rise to power. Even the PETA types were trying to do away with Phil.

Today is Phil’s day, Groundhog Day, and he issued a prediction of six more weeks of winter weather. I must confess, I thought Phil’s handlers might have checked the encouraging long-range forecasts and nudged Phil in the direction of proclaiming spring to be just around the corner.

But, no, Phil is true to himself and despite anticipation of warmer weather and not a lot of snow in coming weeks, Phil hung himself out with a prognostication of the opposite.

The Associated Press report on Phil today, borrowing a page from its political reporting, was eager to slip in a fact-checking paragraph intimating Phil is less than accurate.

It included a link to a government site under the National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration banner, which gives Phil a 30-percent correct rate for the past 10 years. If you want to check, hurry, because a note says the site will be down for maintenance from midday Feb. 6 until 8 p.m. Feb. 8.

And so, it has come to this: Your tax dollars being spent to pay some statistical nerd to calculate the accuracy of a bit of folk lore. I guess it’s better than spending $50 million on condoms for Gaza, to be inflated with helium there and used to float bombs into Israel.

Someone please alert DOGE to the Punxsy Phil fact-checking by NOAA and have it axed immediately, if not sooner.

It strikes me that Phil might use his high-profile platform on this day to offer predictions on things other than weather. In view of recent history, it might be a lot easier and even help his accuracy as reported by AP.

Along that line, here are some things Phil might have predicted today:

Six more weeks of inane Democrat criticism of Trump appointees

Six more weeks of general left-wing media absurdity.

Six more weeks of crying leftists on social media.

Six more weeks of illegal immigrant misinformation.

Six more weeks of Biden pardon fallout.

Six more weeks of revelations of governmental misspending and abuse.

Six more weeks of tariffs

Six more weeks of dead terrorists

Six more weeks of executive orders.

Six more weeks of transgender wailings

Six more weeks of left-wing media types hitting the pavement a la Acosta, Todd and O’Donnell.

And, lastly, one more week (this season) of questionable officiating calls favoring the Kansas City (Chiefs) Swifts.