The typical liberal CYA.
They say something stupid and then try to claim we’re just not smart enough to understand their brilliance.
I can’t help but be reminded of the district manager I worked under back in 1980. I was one of 83 tech reps in his district and he actually sent out a memo about errors on paperwork saying that if any one man accounted for one percent or more of all the errors in the district he could be fired. I pointed out that if each one of the 83 only made one error in a month all of them would need to be fired. He then came back and said that we should not take everything so seriously! He threatened to fire people and then when he realized he had been a fool he could not admit it, he tried to push it off on the people he had threatened.