Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
Forum Wars, I usually agree with almost everything you post in this thread, but I do have to question one thing.
I don't think Stacy gives him any allowance. I think Chrissy controls everything in that marriage. Chrissy has had this fantasy of being the old school man of the house, bringing home big money, "taking care of" his wife, and being the boss and the decision maker. According to Chrissy, the wife is supposed to be a kept woman and second class citizen. In some of his older videos, he made various statements to this effect.
The reason Stacy has no car is along those lines. Sure, Big Daddy Foster had to help finance the Lexus, but it's not just financial. Chrissy could buy her an old beater and let her drive that, but he doesn't. It's a form of control. He doesn't want Stacy going anywhere on her own, or having a life outside of him.
Initially Stacy fell for Chrissy's bullshit because she saw him as an exciting entrepreneur, who had amazing innovative ideas. More importantly, he told her that if she left her husband for him, she could quit her difficult and time-consuming nursing job, and live the life she always wanted. That was appealing to her at the time, as her existing marriage was already falling apart, and she probably was worn out from her nursing job, which can be quite tough.
Very quickly she saw the real Chrissy -- a controlling, broke, scammy moron with a past in gay porn. But by then she had already left her husband and started her new life with Chrissy, and she decided to just go with his bullshit and look at the bright side that she no longer had to work.
Today Stacy is a willing participant in the scams, both on and off video. This is why she deserves no sympathy at this point. Rather than being part of a cold, heartless scam, she could leave Chrissy, return to Ohio, get a nursing job again, and I'm sure her parents would help out with the bills while she got back on her feet. She chooses not to because she'd prefer to scam rather than work, even it means a life with unaffectionate control freak scammer Chrissy.
I don't believe Chrissy keeps any money behind. He's a problem gambler who will keep firing off until he's broke. The only reason he stays in action -- and with a roof over his head -- is because he has the consistent monthly income from both BOL and the chums.
Occasionally Chrissy will go on a lucky streak and run up the money, at which point we get to see Chrissy firing much bigger in the casino and in the sportsbook. But then the mathematics catch up, and once again Chrissy is holding $100k in fake bills while only sitting with $700 of real money in his pocket.
And as we've seen from Pruett's story, as well as the story from a previous disasterous mastermind, he's not afraid to borrow from people. So when Chrissy hits rock bottom, he can always go to a chum and make up some excuse about why he needs to borrow $5000, and they'll often be dumb enough to give it to him.
Chrissy is a subsistence level scammer. He's not like Vegas Dave or D Lucky, both of whom are much more notorious than Chrissy, but run their operation like a business and make bank. Chrissy is a simpleton with a gambling addiction, who scams in order to feed that habit.