Happy Wednesday!

A quick bit of assurance. Today’s Brew is not made from recycled shower water. Sounds yucky? Scroll down a bit.

And yeah, we’ll get to the Trump indictment. But first, a milestone for Sound of Freedom.

Sound of Freedom Has Crossed the $150 Million Threshold

Congratulations, Sound of Freedom. The film exposing the real-life horrors of child sex trafficking has officially topped $150,000,000 in domestic box office. The film, which had to fight tooth and nail for years to get shown on any screen, is now playing on 3,411 screens, according to Angel Studios.

The film will roll out internationally, starting August 18 in South Africa, with 16 Latin American countries screening the film starting August 31.

Meanwhile, this from the Babylon Bee.

Hollywood Confused By New Movie That Depicts Child Sex Trafficking As Bad https://t.co/SY9gcfF5KA pic.twitter.com/zqqlp21ruQ

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 1, 2023

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But I have an idea. I mentioned yesterday that this week our publisher and LIFE Outreach founders James and Betty Robison are celebrating 60 years in ministry and 60 years of marriage. Have James & Betty blessed you in one way or another? Has The Stream? The Brew? Impressed by anyone who could make a marriage last for six decades? Why not say “Thank You” and “Congratulations” by clicking the icon below and helping them reach, rescue and restore even more children?

I guarantee your gift will mean the world to them. And change the lives of some of our planet’s most vulnerable.

Trump Indicted Over J6

It didn’t take a genius to know Special Counsel Jack Smith was going to indict Donald Trump over January 6. Joe Biden signaled as much when he talked last year of using all constitutional means to prevent Trump from ever taking office again. What was the J6 Committee but a way to rustle up evidence for the DOJ and prime the pump? You’re not going to round up grandmas and old vets and charge them for J6 without Orange Man being your ultimate goal. That’s just not the way these things roll.

Rumors were swirling Tuesday afternoon that an announcement was imminent. Trump himself predicted an indictment.

And sure enough …

Joe Biden himself is at the beach. You don’t want to be near reporters when your chief political rival is indicted again … especially when this time involves his insistence you stole the office.

The timing is also little surprise. One of the Theorems of Snake News dictates that the timing of any Trump indictment is directly correlated to revelations about the Biden family. And Devon Archer flipping Monday is a doozy.

Speaking of which, I took another look at the big picture with Archer, Joe and Hunter in, “Does Devon Archer’s Testimony Seal the Deal for an Impeachment Inquiry?”

Perhaps the nation will look at this new Trump indictment with a big yawn. The DOJ is so compromised and, in the wake of its unprecedented sweetheart deal with Hunter, so demonstrably politicized that it’s getting hard to take anything the Justice Department does seriously.

Then again, charging Trump over J6 is a much bigger deal than over some documents or some payments to a stripper. Doing so when the DOJ is in the tight-fisted control of a president facing not only wretched polling but mounting evidence of his own corruption is downright uncharted waters. Well, at least for (North) America. History has ridden these rapids before. It rarely ends well.

Let us pray the American craft doesn’t capsize in these coming months. The Stream will have more details Wednesday.

Distributors: Bud Light May Never Recover From Dylan Mulvaney Debacle

Many beer distributors are giving up trying to lure customers back to Bud Light, the New York Post reported Monday. “Consumers have made a choice,” a Texas-based beer distributor, who did not want to be identified, told the NY Post. “They have left [Bud Light] and that’s how it’s going to be. I don’t envision a big percentage of them coming back.”

Those customers are gone for good, and the distributers must focus on a new crop of drinkers.

Bud Light’s slide continues. Last week saw a 26.8% drop over last year. And now Bud Light is expected to lose its long-held reign as America’s best-selling beer. Bud Light currently has 8.4% of the market share while Modesto has risen to 8.2%. According to industry expert Bump Williams, that’s the closest any beer has ever gotten to Bud Light. However, Williams is predicting Modesto will soon take the crown. “It’s going to happen a LOT sooner than anyone had ever thought,” Williams said Monday. “We have it surpassing Bud Light mid-August.”

The catastrophic collapse of Bud Light began April 1 when the beer partnered with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney.

A Beer Made From Recycled Shower Water? Sounds Gross, But It’s Rather Interesting

Remember when “this beer tastes like bath water” was a bad thing? That hasn’t stopped the Green army from coming up with a beer made of recycled shower water. CNN reports:

You wouldn’t know if you tasted it, but Epic OneWater Brew is a beer with a peculiar ingredient: it’s made with water recycled from the showers, sinks and washing machines of a residential building.

The beer is a joint venture between Epic Cleantec — a San Francisco-based water treatment facility — and a local brewery. The point is not to fill the void left by Bud Light’s demise. In fact, the beer is not for sale since current regulations forbid the use of recycled wastewater in commercial beverages.

The point of the beer was to highlight the issue of water scarcity and re-use. They produced 7,000 cans for a conference last year, says Aaron Tartakovsky, Founder and CEO of Epic Cleantec, “It was meant to tell the water reuse story in a new way. But frankly, we did not anticipate the tremendous response that we saw.”

So beer drinkers, Bud Light’s in one cooler. Epic OneWater Brew in another. Which do you choose?

 

Al Perrotta is the Managing Editor of The Stream, chief barista for The Brew and co-author, with John Zmirak, of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration. You can follow him at @StreamingAl at GETTR, Gab, Parler, and now at TRUTH Social.