Just listened to it and took some notes:
This did not start with us, nor did it start with a Norm Macdonald tweet. Patrick's entire online persona is somebody that starts fights on the internet. If you go to his own website patrickstomlinson.com and go to his about page, his own bio reads "He can often be found starting huge fights on twitter". Among many other gruesome things, he has called for the rape and execution of his political rivals, he has vowed to utterly ruin the lives of anyone who voted Republican in the last 2 elections and get them fired from their jobs and disowned from their families. While our community did discover him from the Norm Macdonald tweet, that was hardly the start of his internet troubles. He is an extremely abrasive and condescending person, and has a very odd way of talking down to people, calling them "child" and "sweetie" and "little nothing", and he replies to every single troll message imaginable against the advice of his friends, family, and lawyers - and as everybody knows, the more attention you give to the trolls, the more they are going to troll you. For example, the first time I visited his Twitter, the first thing I saw on there was a picture of a black penis peeing on his face that someone had sent him and that he tweeted out to his tens of thousands of followers saying “Look at this! Look what the trolls are doing to me!”
Patrick hasn’t been swatted 6 times, he has been swatted 4 times, and all 4 incidents have occurred within the past 2 and a half months. It is unlikely that anyone from the opie and Anthony community is behind it as our group has been more or less the same few dozen people, and even the people who have taken it too far have gone 4 years without doing anything close to swatting him. There is another website called Kiwifarms, where Patrick has exploded in popularity in the last year and a half after he tried to subpoena them for his lawsuit. Since trying to subpoena them, his forum thread there has exploded from 6 pages to over 1,100 something pages.
There is no political angle to any of this.
Patrick is not an author. He is an insurance salesman. His sales numbers are public information as are his insurance licenses. His scifi writing is an has always been a hobby that brings in a hundred dollars every 6 months.