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The idea has risen like cheap champagne in the putrescent bowels of the Republicans.

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Because it is a putrescent pile of racist myths and cliches.

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This cheery facade was always rotten, red meat for investors propped up by a trembling skeleton of venture capital, but now it is absolutely putrescent.

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As with all our monsters, zombies rise so that the living can either also fall or find some kind of salvation by surviving, fighting and obliterating these putrescent threats.

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The pinkish, putrescent, rurally located lagoons have been a source of concern for decades.

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