The worst thing is that he did legitimately try to understand her for a brief period. What turned him into the Temu Joker was basically her saying that he couldn't buy his way out of being a shitty parent and refusing to do what everyone else in his orbit does and gargle his balls in the hope of a handout. That absolutely broke him, and he's been on the war path ever since.

I mean yea, that's just how it works tho. We're all still reeling from the boomers just existing as it is