The Latest Case for Never Apologizing

Hey everybody, today on The Charlie Kirk Show, Andrew and I riff about some transgender issue in Virginia, regarding Winsome Sears and the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. We talk about populism and how it is spreading across the globe in this very crisp and fire episode of The Charlie Kirk Show. Become a member to listen to these episodes advertiser free, members.charlicirk.com.

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By Winston Sears. Yeah. So she basically just... Well, no, she said, I'm not here to upset anybody.

I'm here to do the people's business that you elected me for. Okay. Well, let's go through the whole story and maybe that I think there is an apology that she just recently said three times, I apologize, I apologize, I apologize.

But okay, let's go through the story here. So what happened in Virginia? So the original, and we will play the video here, but the original clip is that she's Virginia's Lieutenant Governor. She came to office in that 2022. The only wave we've had. The only wave we've had, which was Virginia. Was 2021. 2021, that's right.

They do off years. It was Glenn Youngkin. By the way, that was the closest thing to a wave we've seen. That's it, right? This is because it was a local election.

The RNC wasn't involved. So Virginia Lieutenant Governor, Winston Sears, refers to transgender state Senator Danica Roem as sir. And then basically chaos ensues. He storms out of the room and the Senate went into two recesses.

So let's go ahead and play Cut 64. The Senator may state it. Madam President, how many votes would it take to pass this bill with the emergency clause? That would be four-fifths, Senator. And what would be the exact number for that, Madam President?

Yes, sir, that would be 32. The question is, shall the bill pass? Those in favor of that motion will record their votes aye. Those opposed, no. Are the Senators ready to vote? Okay, and then I think it continues in Cut 65, right?

Yep, 65. I am not here to upset anyone. I am here to do the job that the people of Virginia have called me to do, and that is to treat everyone with respect and dignity. I myself have at times not been afforded that same respect and dignity. But in this body, and as long as I am president of the Senate, and by the grace of God, I will be treated with respect and dignity, and I will treat everyone else with respect and dignity.

So that was a pretty triumphant deal. She has now since backed off, and in three different times, I apologize, I apologize, I apologize. When you watch the clip, it seems like she does it subconsciously, because this trans person presents very masculine, just to be honest, and I think she, Winston Sears, did it sort of inadvertently. So it doesn't surprise me that she kind of backed off of it, but it sort of speaks to the ridiculousness of the whole notion where you have people that are pretty masculine, features, they're built, and we all are sort of forced to pretend. But it is a man. That's a man. That's a man. That's why Winston Sears said sir, but you can tell she wasn't even thinking about it.

She just kind of was grabbing for papers and said sir. So it's actually kind of a humorous clip. But I don't think, I'm kind of disappointed Winston Sears never should have apologized. It was an accident. But misgendering isn't a real thing, right? Yeah. I mean, yes, right?

I mean, that's a whole... If I called you a lady, then that would be misgendering. That would be misgendering, right? That's the only example. The only misgendering is... That's actually really funny.

That's the only misgendering, yes. That's the point. Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here. If you're looking for a reliable and clear way to have voice and text communication to any number from anywhere in the world, you need a satellite phone and no one does it better than the satellite phone store. Just go to sat123.com.

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Ain't but two genders, two genders, ain't nothing but men and women. You can go to the doctor and get cut up. You can go down to the dress shop and get made up. You can go down there and get drugged up. But at the end of the day, you were just drugged up, dressed up, made up, cut up, man or woman. You ain't changed what God put in you, that DNA. You can't transcend God's creation.

I don't care how hard you try. Well, I think I love it. Yeah. What we saw in Virginia was just an example of that. And by the way, to be fair to Winsom's here, she's it's a purple state at best. It's a blue state, but she's not up for reelection.

Remember what I'm. But but the whole state is trying to, you know, sort of act like, you know, yes, we're Republicans, but we're reasonable. We're not those Steve Bannon conservatives or whatever. So it's a little bit different of a political dynamic.

I think that if there I'll be I'm contrarian, obviously. I think if there's a hill to die on, it's calling a man a man. It's reality. Yeah.

Yeah. Let's be real. And it's the way she could have owned it is like, OK, in a chamber, I guess I might have, you know, called you what you want to be called. But you look like a dude. You are a dude. Stop taking this so seriously, dude. If she would have said that, it would've been hilarious.

Well, I mean, at the very least, Winston Sears could have said, I apologize for. No, no. Hold on. Hold on.

Hold on. I know. I know that's your position on it. I'm saying that at the very least, that maybe a middle ground would have been like, hey, sorry. You know, I'm I'm reacting to what my eyes see.

It was a subconscious thing. I said, you know, I'm just saying or what you could have said is my intent wasn't to make you upset. You should have enough strength in your own identity that if someone calls you, sir, you just kind of laugh it off. Yeah. But obviously you're a fragile. I was going to keep going, but I could just refer to the person like their last name.

You see that? I'm trying to behave like fragile. Just use the last name instead of just leave the pronouns completely. I mean, listen, there is a part of me and maybe this is just because, you know, maybe I'm showing my my moderate strength.

You know, part of my thinking here, a moderate streak. But I do want to sort of in a better world if, you know, for example, somebody changes their name because they they don't like their birth family or they have a falling out. Maybe they change their first name, whatever that that happened.

I have a cousin that's different. Exactly. But I want to respect that person's choice of a new name. So there's this part of me that wants to be respectful. But then it comes with all this baggage about how they're imposing it on our children. And we have to get these constant news reports of like first trans woman to be elected into the state Senate in Virginia.

But also the Virginia Democrats immediately said the apology wasn't accepted. One hundred percent because they're petty little. Yes. You know, but then also that they break quorum over this. Yeah. Over misgendering. Yeah. I mean, it's a total. And by the way, again, if you saw somebody make it, it was it was an accident.

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Like, where do they fall on? I mean, I think in Santa Barbara is what you're referring to. Yeah. It's off limits, but live and let live, probably. Yeah, I would think so. Like, for example, if if they started pushing that on on children in my sphere, I would feel completely comfortable in Santa Barbara to say, hey, this isn't OK. And I would fully expect I'm going to have some backup there.

But I mean, yeah, I mean, Santa Barbara is probably left of center, but it's more conservative than a lot of places in California. But is this issue it's probably like too much for the kids. But if I see a man dressed. Yeah, be respectful. Yeah, we just, you know, whatever.

And then privately, we all talk about it and laugh about it. Oh, is that right? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, it's no different. I mean, that's what's so funny about it. Even liberals probably like, you know.

I don't know. I mean, I'm not talking. Listen, I'll be I mean, I'm not hanging out with dyed in the wool ideologues. I mean, but I but I but a lot of my friends, yeah, they vote Democrat. And then, you know, but I bring this up and they kind of go, that's a good point. And I've had a few of them go like, you know, during covid, I'm like, you voted for this. And I didn't vote for this.

I'm like, yes, yes, you did. And there's actually been some lights that have come on. But, you know, Santa Barbara's got a moderately conservative mayor. I'm just curious that if it isn't as far as we would be on the trends. No, no, it's not.

But my kids go to a conservative Christian school. And if they tried that crap there, I mean, I'd be turning over tables. Do you think the trans lobby is losing momentum? Yeah. Actually, you know, it's funny. I had a I had a dinner with a reporter in a lot of people. I don't know if our audience knows that's what I do with the other part of my day.

I'm constantly working with press and me. It is a time suck unlike anything. I actually like some of them. And, you know, we've talked about how The New York Times is not nearly as bad as The Washington Post. The Washington Post is actually trying to I would die and trying to change change that a little bit. AP is by far the worst outlet I've ever worked with. Associated Press is the worst.

Completely dishonest hacks AP. Yeah, completely. Anyway, so I'm having dinner in D.C. with a New York Times reporter from New York. He happened to be in D.C. and he told me, he said, you know, all my friends were all sort of like old school Democrats. You know, he's like, yeah, I hate Trump, but, you know, this is what's getting insane. He's like, I'm telling you, if Republicans want to win, make the trans issue part of the central message. Yeah. And he told me that because liberal in New York, he was saying, we're all getting sick of it.

All my like kind of, you know, what element of it? The kids part, just the kids part. The kids part, just the in your face, the constant drumbeat of it, just the just the psychological, you know, everybody feels inundated by this.

Right. And so he was noticing it in New York and seeing that like a lot of his bougie friends were getting sick of it. And he was just like, listen, somebody needs to speak sanity into this craziness because it's going off the rails.

And this was like three years ago. And so I remember thinking then that if this is this guy's telling me this and this is a Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter. And, you know, I it stuck with me ever since.

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It's kind of like racism. Here it is perfectly. Thank you, Ryan.

Let's play Cut 45. But I will say that in all of our democracies, in every democracy around the world, we are seeing a rising movements of either authoritarian populism or skepticism about democracy itself. And we all need to recommit ourselves to standing up, not just for Ukraine, but through standing up for Ukraine to the very principles that make our countries strong and free. I remember when Canada used to be this really decent, boring country. Make Canada boring again. It used to be so boring and fun to visit.

And now it's like beta Nazism. Well, you know, this whole thing reminds me of is the Mike Benz interview, which, by the way, if obviously he did an interview with Tucker that went mega viral. But then he came on this show like two days after it really well. Yeah, no, it did. It did phenomenal.

So if you haven't if you haven't seen that episode, by all means, look at it again. But he talks about this timeline of basically 2014. You know, the Crimea, the seizure of Crimea by the Russians went into where they sort of realized tweets, not tanks was the new power. So they so the Intel agencies and our NATO partners started this censorship regime. It really started in earnest then in 2016 with the rise of Brexit and then Donald Trump. And they started seeing this populist wave. And they they basically started treating populism as the same as they would treat the rise of pro Russian ideologies from in Eastern Europe.

Right. So so they started using it and treating them the same and using censorship the same upon both of these. And all of these three letter agency personnel scattered to the wind, all these NGOs to sort of censor this. And so what Trudeau is really doing here is he's he's sort of confirming Mike Benz's thesis that that Western elites that now control the levers of power in our representative democracies view populism as an existential threat. But you have said really clearly on this show that if you want to get populism, do two things. You mass immigrate and then you mass print and you mass print. So so the West is guilty of both.

I don't know if any other show says it the way we say it's super simple. If you want a rise of populism, you know, just tell your citizens that you don't have any borders anymore and your currency is going to be worse. Yeah. So and then all of a sudden the country is powerful and as wealthy as America, all of a sudden the everyday citizens are like, I'm living paycheck to paycheck under Biden. So I want to focus on us.

I want to focus on our border. And and that's what's so interesting about what's playing out is you've got Mike Johnson meeting with Schumer, McConnell and Biden at the White House today. And, you know, Schumer comes out and says, hey, history is looking at you. Then Johnson comes out and says, actually, I'm looking at America.

So, yeah, I mean, tough, tough, tough luck here, guys. I'm not going to pass some Ukraine 60 billion dollar funding really squeezing him right now. They're squeezing him big. And he deserves our appreciation, admiration and prayers. I mean, as he's standing alone, he has said that there will not be a government shutdown.

But the question is, will they fund Ukraine and are we going to get another C.R.? I mean, yeah, that's my one beef with with Johnson. I want it. I want him to be OK with shutting down the government. Like put that on the table.

We get the guys. Biden has all the executive authority he needs in order to close this border and secure it. Trump showed us that. So if you want a funded government, if you want to fund Ukraine, play ball and really play ball. And if you're not, if you're not willing to, which all indications are that Joe Biden is not willing to close this border down, then sorry, you don't get any of these nice, shiny things.

So it should be on the table. It's my one beef with him. But the fact that he's standing solid with him on Ukraine. The country's with him on a border wall. The country's with him. I mean, he is the yes, he has a slight majority, but he actually has a very powerful people's majority of the country. One hundred percent.

Yeah. And that's what we've learned with Trump. If the people are with you, you are indestructible. We've learned this with attacks that you've experienced that, you know, Bannon's experience, Trump's experience, even that Matt Gaetz has experienced when he first took McCarthy out. The people were with him. The grassroots.

We've learned this with Rana. But when the people are with you, you have power. And it's sort of a question of whether or not you're willing to stand in the gap and take the slings and arrows because the media is going to be vicious on him.

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