My personal logical explanation for the predictive programming is that it is a multifunctional tool. Helps to get the herd groupthink working on the stated goal & May give some psychological, perhaps spiritual & moral sense of relief to the perpetrators. Or perhaps it is just a sick sense of humor coupled with using social engineering to achieve goals.

Another take is that regularly releasing truths, through conspiracy channels like Alex Jones, is a necessary part of effective disinformation. Sure works great to get the people to ask for their rights to be taken away