He really is acting like this $2000 is the magic cure. And boomer segment is done in less than 10 minutes because he wasn't getting any money with the questions.
I know the speculation is wild right now, & I am thoroughly enjoying the colorful range of different hypotheses flying around, but I think his laissez faire behavior is lining up with where I landed on this when it broke. Which is pretty boring, but boring also lines up with him, as a whole:
I think this quarterassed $2k drive is to cover whatever he already spent/intends to spend [on dining out, no doubt], on his dopey wife for Xmas.
That's it.
As with everything else, he is just too under-evolved to ascertain the concepts of fault or cause//effect as . And honestly, I don't see why he would. He's like god damn 40 years old & never once not had a human meatshield against suffering a single tangible consequence. Absent that, he has always worn down whatever stands in his way with his ability to launch
indefatigable temper tantrums. He's also an unapologetic, compulsive liar & revisionist historian with complete social/intellectual atrophy.
So I don't think he understands how fucked he is. It's too god damn big. He has an idea, but he's clearly not shitting himself. At all. If he were, we'd see it.
But this guy doesn't live on a planet where (again) someone doesn't bail him out &/or he can't just be a shrieking pisscunt until a problem goes away. He thinks he's a juggernaut & a survivor. This will be fine too, because in his own words, he's "uncancellable".
All he cares about right now is getting to swang his cashdick around next week so she'll hang around a little longer.
Thus, $2k Burnell Xmas goal.