He's beating himself up over the IFP mishap for sure.
I'm rereading the pseudo-transcripts and I don't think he understood why the judge was asking him if he could afford the filing fee. It seems like he didn't connect the dots that answering "yes" would lead to "pay $400". He preplanned the "IFP has nothing to do with copyright" as his retard defense and didn't realize the questions that came before and after were asked for specific reasons. I legitimately don't believe he knew what the IFP review motion was about, and he assumed Schrodinger's copyright negate whatever it was.
It's one of those where I wish I could have seen or heard it because of the tone mannerisms. On paper, it looked like it was a disaster any time he had to veer away from "not relevant", "this is a copyright case", or his standard plight sperging.
He had rehearsed his answers beforehand and when he knew the question that was going to be asked, he had a stock standard Greer response locked and loaded. But when the conversation veered into places he wasn't expecting, such as when the judge magistrate said something I'm shocked at how you haven't done X in relation to not producing his records when pressed to and his reply, which is always, my phone doesnt have the space to maintain my litigation records on them, Hardin has the same info I do so why cant he do it? and the judge, in turn, said this is your litigation and those are your records, all you had to do was go to a court and request them. You didn't. Make me understand why. And all he could do was stammer, apologize and offer ' I didn't knows and I didn't understand'.
He also got himself worked up when they grilled him about witnesses, district transfer, and his conduct regarding the two. All he could do was seethe about how Josh doesn't live where I think he lives so none of this is my problem.
He immediately took the bait Hardin laid out about killing his IFP status, because he always has to mouth off to Hardin in his emails, I CAN pay but I WON'T pay. So the judge asked him point blank, can you pay? Russ said yeah of course I can. The judge figured Russ didn't understand the gravity of what he just said and gave him one last out: can you pay this and not have your bills and rent affected? Again, Russ, not understanding what was actually being asked, replied affirmatively. So the judge had no choice but order the filing fee be paid, and Russ, after a long pause, sounded completely defeated and just numbly mumbled out that he would do so.
At the end of the meeting it was clear Mr. Greer was completely out of his depth and no longer has any clue what he's doing, he wants all the burden of work and proof shifted to Hardin and Josh because he has no idea how to produce it himself though he directly stated 'I have evidence he (Josh) has directly infringed mine and other's copyrights' while seething about Josh. I'm interested to see if he just sullenly completes the death march this case is on or files complaint after complaint about how he's sorry, he doesn't understand, please district judge the magistrate is bullying me, all the while reminding everyone that the 10th declared him the winner years ago so why are we still here?