What on earth compels this man to respond like this? It can't just be basic stupidity. Patrick's stubbornness makes a mule seem agreeable.
And his rolls of flab makes elephant seals look malnourished.
He once said he had been diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder. Whether he has been diagnosed with it or he just thought it sounded badass, it does make sense bearing in mind his behaviour.
ODD is categorically NOT badass. It has more in common with OCD or Antisocial Personality Disorder than being Chuck Norris, and it can absolutely ruin your life. ODD is a mental compulsion to fight back against ANY perceived slight, insult, opposition, authority or any challenge to you or your behaviour. This is no matter how minor, slight or pointless this is. You know the saying "pick your battles"? ODD people don't.
Every interaction with everyone else has to be "won", be it playing chicken with people on the sidewalk or getting into fights all the time. A distant relative has it, and he ended up in prison for several years for a crime he didn't commit, even though he had an alibi. He went to prison because he picked a fight with the Police, he picked a fight with the Jail, he picked a fight with his own lawyer, he picked a fight with the judge, he picked a fight with the jury and he even picked a fight with his own defence witness whose testimony would have exonerated him and who subsequently didn't show up to court. He is not a stupid man, but he is just unable to help raging against every single machine he comes across.
I think Pat has ODD. He won't back down, ever, even when he has nothing to gain by fighting. Every tweet and text is a challenge, and ODD people can never, ever let those lie and
have to win. I think he might have other personality disorders as well. He also has a serious insecurity complex about his masculinity. Everything he claims to be into - guns, motorbikes, muscle cars, sports, DIY, drinking, fighting, are very poorly-informed cargo cult ideas of masculinity. Why is this? Well his father was very macho, from what we understand, and his cousin, the amazingly-named Jake Raven, is a Marine sniper and genuine badass, so Pat would have developed an inferiority complex from a young age, especially as a rotund idiot with highly effeminate mannerisms. Pat may also be in the closet, given the failure of his first marriage and his weird relationship with his second wife. And of course, what I think was the tipping point for his psyche, losing his first wife and daughter to a superior man. Pat was out-manned, and for someone with ODD that kind of humiliation can make you lose your fucking mind. So ever since then Pat has tried to prove to everyone that he is the ultimate badass, an ultra-masculine ubermensch who will steal your girl and ride his badass motorbike into the sunset while firing his revolvers in the air. But because he is a fat idiot, he has utterly failed and looks incredibly stupid, which is one of the things that makes him so funny.