This kind of comment admits really only 2 possibilities:

1. This is the standard authoritarian tactic of flooding the zone with shit, spewing verbal diarrhea without regard to truth, but rather to disrupt discourse, to intimidate and disconcert, as Sartre famously said.

2. The writer is actually dumb enough to believe it, against all available evidence.

I guess there’s also:

3. All of the above.