Yes, actually. Entirely this. His one hundred and fifty-seven uses of “the court overlooked” is his pseudo-polite way of angrily seething, “the fucking court didn’t READ WHAT I WROTE!! If they read it, they’d understand!!!” If they read it again and still don’t agree with him, they didn’t read it well enough. Russ believes everything he claims in life is 2+2 and anyone who can’t see that is just being willfully stubborn, ignorant, or secretly malicious.
He must feel like a man trying to explain the simplest possible thing to a room full of drooling idiots. Sadly, we’re all of normal intelligence and Russ is the fucking idiot, babbling nonsense that makes sense only to him. He just can’t see that because he’s blinded by narcissism.
I can also see this as partially the product of him being coddled as a child for being the class retard. As long as he “explained” his side of things, everything turned out fine. Russ has likely never had a lot of moments where his “explanation” of his actions actually had to make sense or support his actions in any way. They just got taken at face value because he’s retarded and you can’t punish him because he doesn’t know any better, and he was given a far lesser punishment, leading Russ to assume that so long as he explains, he will get his way/avoid harsher consequences.
-
Student: Russ hit me in the head with his satchel because I wouldn’t let him play with me and my friends!
Teacher: Russ, what is your explanation?
Russ: (mumbles and drools) they were mean an’ it’s not fair an’ I panicked.
Teacher: (sighs in frustration) all right children, go play, and let Russ play with you. I don’t want to hear any more arguments.
-
Russ’ parents: Why did you post a kill list in the school, Russ?
Russ: (mumbles) other kids were makin’ fun of me an’ I wasn’t gonna do it an’ i had anxiety.
Russ’ parents: (sigh in frustration) We’ll get a lawyer to handle this. You’re grounded.
—-
Boss: Why did you harass that female co-worker, Russ?
Russ: (mumbles) she was talkin to me an’ i was tryin to be nice an’ i have anxiety.
Boss; (sighs in frustration) Let’s just move her desk to another area. Don’t bother her anymore.
-
Sadly, Russ then entered the world of Law and thought it would work the same way his life always has, only to be absolutely stunned that it doesn’t. His fuckin face was priceless when he got gobsmacked by a judge for the whole Erica thing. He really thought “I’m anxious and I can’t help it and she’s crazy and she’s mean” was actually going to get him off all charges.
This is why people need to spank their kids more. Or at least just Russell Greer.
