No, the commenter is saying that at some point in the past the government put lipstick on a pig, so now he will assume that anything he sees wearing lipstick is probably a pig (unless of course it is something of direct benefit to him in which case his selfish rationalization does not need to mask itself behind moronic rhetoric.)

I'll rephrase, I guess. The impression I'm getting from the commenter's reasoning is more-or-less a "The government is trying to kill us all" type of thing. I assume I'm wrong, because I like to pretend that people are rational, and because this is HN, where most people generally are. On the assumption that I'm wrong, I've asked for an explicit clarification. I respect your attempt, but (unfortunately) providing me with another ambiguous metaphor doesn't really help my confusion.