I'm a Twitter lurker, in that I don't currently have an account, but I can read threads when other sites link to them. Apparently, numerous left-wingers are posting this, today, even while some batches of votes are being "discovered" (and other batches of ballots discovered in the trash):
"I love seeing TRUMP lose, it's my daily medicine, my weekly energy, my monthly inspiration and my yearly motivation. His loss is the only reason i'm still alive, i was born to love and enjoy the failure that he has achieved."
This has two examples of comma splices. A sentence can have only one main clause, but each of these sentences has two. If someone were to express such a pathetic expression of one's life that seeing a political candidate lose is his or her sole reason for existing as a living person, then (s)he should be using a semicolon rather than a comma after the word "lose" and again after the word "alive," or, if one prefers the comma, then a conjunction can be used immediately afterwards.
More importantly, however, just imagine your life being this devoid of meaning that this would be something you would actually proclaim. Add to that the inability of expressing such a trite thought without the help of copy and paste.
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