Welcome to another edition of The Schmidt Storm. You have questions. I got answers. Let's get going.

The first question is, what does it say about the United States Congress that a member, a woman from Texas named Kay Granger, could literally go missing, could shut down her offices and nobody would know about it.

Congresswoman Granger was discovered in a long-term care facility after going missing for a

long time with nobody knowing. Her offices were shut down, though her staff was still being paid by you,

the taxpayer. What does it say about Congress? It says nothing good. A member of Congress went

missing. And the truth of the matter is, we have a very, very broken system of government.

There are three things that have broken it. Money,

of course, redistricting, where the members picked their voters, not the other way around,

and the collapse of the media. Think about the Washington, D.C. media. For those of you familiar with the publication Politico,

among the smuggest, most arrogant, most preposterous figures

in all of the Washington media is the blowhard John Harris of Politica.

This is the person who celebrates the diligence of his organization.

They cover Congress. They cover Washington. But the truth is, they don't cover any of that for you.

They cover it to sell ads to lobbyists. They dress up trivia and call it news. That's what Politico is.

So in an environment that's completely uncaring, utterly transactional, that is a gerontocracy

filled with people who don't have to run in elections to be elected once they are

elected, it's not surprising at all. But it shows how completely, utterly broken the American media is.

And by the way, Texas is not a news desert. Texas is an American megastate, filled with cities,

with million-person populations, filled with robust media institutions, newspapers, and television.

And yet, who here is K. Granger? And the truth is, what's covered in Washington

is the freak show, not the members of Congress. So the truth is, she may not be the only one

missing. If you look at, the past is prologged because nobody pays attention to anything these people do,

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