I'd really love to see him having to deal with the consequences of his bullshit but even with that idiotic lawsuit there will be probably nothing coming for him and he'll rationalize him losing somehow in his lala-land version of the events. Kinda frustrating!
He is dealing with the consequences of his bullshit. He’s a Walmart janitor who has alienated his family and lives in an apartment bedroom somewhere with no friends and nothing in his life to look forward to but his annual hooker trips, which may be coming to an end.
The problem is he doesn’t know he’s feeling the consequences, and no matter what happens to him, whether it’s his case(s) getting thrown out of court, or homelessness, jail, psychiatric commitment, from trolls to being ignored by the people he values so much, he will never recognize that his pathetic, friendless, loveless life is a result of the things he’s done. He’s so set on the dual blame of Taylor did it/Disability did it, he will never know the truth, that he did it.
I feel your frustration though. With all these cows, there is always our desire for them to wake up for a second and see what they’ve done, and we feel incredulity that they cannot, no matter how much is pointed out to them, they justify it.
Russ is a special case, because he profoundly wants to be seen a certain way and belong to something. He wants to sit on Jimmy Fallon’s couch and sleep with beautiful pop stars and be part of what he sees as rarified air, but his down-grade “reachable’ idea was to be seen as a smart professional in the law, wearing expensive suits and taking out gorgeous secretaries. He wants to belong so badly, to be something he sees as special and his birthright, but in his delusions he missed the fact that these things are accomplishments that you work for, and to fit in and achieve goals you have to understand rules - read music, or understand the law. To him, it’s all about appearance alone. He looks the part, except for his damn face! He’s a fit, handsome 9/10! Somebody, maybe Katy Perry, will see who he truly is. Taylor didn’t, Ariana didn’t, the law firms didn’t. All he can think of is it didn’t work out because of his face.
But he’ll keep trying. It will never work, because he truly doesn’t know how show business works - even the basics of mail that we all know by age ten. This is where he veers into stalker; he thinks Katy is posting on Facebook and reading his responses, that Taylor says hi to the mailman as his book arrives. He doesn’t think the law is actually important to the law, it’s about what he wants. He doesn’t understand that being a professional is more than wearing the right clothes. In his lawsuit, I think, he said something like nobody at work ‘knew he was a professional’ because he doesn’t recognize himself as a janitor. To him, his fantasies are truth, here’s just a professional talking to Katy about her arch nemesis Taylor. He will keep trying the way he always has, because, he’s doing it right, it’s the world who hasn’t discovered him yet.
His neediness, personality disorder and fantasy life mixed together in such a way that he cannot wake up and see what he’s done, or he’d implode. This is what’s real to him and all it takes is one person and he gets it all. So we get these quotes on his page, that rev him up and keep him identifying with what he wants to think he is, and every single time reality doesn’t match his idea, he goes into angry blame mode and throws out reality.
Russ will never see himself for who he is, he’ll never understand he’s not even close to the game. The scary part is he is going to keep trying to be accepted into a world that doesn’t exist, and what that will look like in ten years is anybody’s guess. He won’t give up, he won’t see reality he- he won’t be happy working at Walmart and making babies with the fat checker. Most people like Russ who so badly want to be seen and seen as important do eventually escalate their behavior and get louder.
The interesting question is what he’ll do if the avenue of lawsuits is no longer open. Something.
