Since he is quite happy to do this seemingly forever, it is no surprise he often gets in the last word, people just have better things to do than correcting him forever like this.
Especially since he is willing to lie about the whole thing, and most people are not interested in reading such a quarrel anyway. This of course does not mean he is "right".
But he is happy to pretend that it does. For that sake, he is happy to pretend that he is right even when this for some reason does not happen.
