Year-End Rants: Our Top Ten Stories Of 2025

Ready for the real top 10 of 2025? Forget what the big networks say—these are the issues that shaped our year, straight from The Rant Network's own lens. Tune in to see what stories truly moved the needle for us, and why they matter now more than ever. We finish with numbers 1 - 3.

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Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Hello, baby.
It's almost New Year's.

SPEAKER_01 (00:12):
2025 is over.

SPEAKER_00 (00:17):
And here are what we're calling the top three left
of 2025.
And as we close out this yearand probably post some more
additional broadcasts just tofill up some air, I want you all
to know that David and I,speaking on his behalf, which he

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loves when I do that.
Oh, yeah.
I want to wish you all a veryhappy and healthy New Year's.
Know that we are planning to behere yet for another year to
disrupt and show and bring somelevity to some very, very
serious problems and fundamentalissues that we are faced with in

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the media and the world aroundus.
So without wasting any more ofour valuable time that you are
taking to follow us, let us diveright on in with the number
three.
Trump in power.
Donald Trump just didn't disruptpolitics.

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He disrupted the entire powerstructure in politics that has
gone unquestioned for 240 years.
His presidency, which began withan elevator pitch, began and
exposed how deeply entrenchedbureaucracy, media's

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institutions, and the politicalelite have grown accustomed to
operating without anychallenges.
This resistance was about tone.
And it was about norms, but itwas about control.
And President Trump, outside ofapproval, he went out to destroy

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the modern presidency byengaging in borders, energy,
trade, and foreign policy inways in which have never been
seen from the president'soffice.

SPEAKER_01 (02:16):
David, how is that?
You know what, Stuart?
I gotta tell you, let me remindeverybody.
Let's rewind, folks.
Let's rewind, folks.
When Trump took power in 2017, Imean it was like, oh my god, the
end of the world.
Words like autocrat started topop out, stuff he was saying,

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doing this and that.
And it was like over those fouryears in presidency, he realized
and he surrounded himself withthe wrong people that were
looking to destroy him, not tolift him.
And he was furious with whatoccurred after when the Biden
administration used andempowered the Department of

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Justice, the FBI, to go afterTrump, his family.
How many different court cases,how many different lawsuits, how
many different districtattorneys were just salivating
at the notion of trying toincarcerate a former president.
Only for him to come back in2024, not only rip through the

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Republican Party in terms of anomination, and we had guys like
Nikki Haley, Ronda Santis, realpeople like we thought we're
gonna take on Marco Rubio, we'regonna take on and all this kind
of stuff.
And in comes like a bull in achina shop, Donald Trump.

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We forgot last summer thatDonald Trump was nearly killed
in a field in Pennsylvania whilegiving a speech.
This is how much the left hatedthe idea that Donald Trump will
re-emerge.
The exposure of the KamalaHarris campaign is being a
falsehood.
The lies behind Biden'spresidency, the auto and you

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name it.
When Donald Trump came in, hewas gonna do scorched earth.
He said it throughout his wholecampaign what he was going to
do.
And it shouldn't have been ashock story to anybody that he
was gonna come in like a bull ina China shop.
And he did.
And what he accomplished in hisfirst 100 days, presidents
didn't accomplish in four yearsin power.

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Did he disrupt America?
Oh baby, did he ever?
Starting with Doge, he really,really turned the screws on the
Democrats, on this, on thepublic service, and on a whole
bunch of other people.
One false, crazy, eccentricprogram after another was
exposed.
The billions of dollars sent toall kinds of nations for all

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kinds of stupid shit.
And that's just where hestarted.

SPEAKER_00 (05:00):
David, whether you support him or not, the lessons
that Donald J.
Trump is undeniable.
When it comes to power ischallenged, it reveals itself.
Many Americans saw for the firsttime how fragile some democratic
norms can become even when theyare not pre-approved.

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David, that brings us.
Well, hold on.
Well, well, well, well, youdon't get to control this.

SPEAKER_01 (05:28):
Holy crap, I still had something to say about DT.
Listen, Donald Trump, one thingabout Donald Trump's ladies and
gentlemen, and people say whenhe came into power, what we're
still seeing is this idea of theDemocrats trying to unseat him.
Where it's like, again,autocrat, Nazi, white
supremacist, you name it, hasbeen thrown on this guy, and he

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just goes flick.
He doesn't care.
He's on a plane flying back fromwherever and holding a press
conference, an impromptu pressconference must drive his team
crazy every time he does that.
But he's opened up to the to theto the media.
He's given them so much, and inreturn from the view to MSNBC to

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all the rest of them, it's aboutfinding ways to destroy the
presidency, the hypocrisy.
So when we say that Trump isback in power, oh baby, he's in
power.
All right, moving on.
Speaking of power, Stuart, letme punt this one to you.
New York City.
The Statue of Liberty was oncethe you know, opened up our arms

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to all kinds of immigrants.
Come to America, but there wasone condition.
This is America, and America iswhat we uphold.
But it seems that New York Citykind of decided, meh, let's go
in a different direction.
Zora Manani is the new mayor ofNew York City, Stuart.

SPEAKER_00 (06:57):
All right.
New York didn't do didn'tdecline because of bad luck.
It declined because of ideologyreplaced accountability.
Zoramandani seems to be theleader who's chosen to govern
this symbolism in the city oflife, the city that never

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sleeps.
And the consequences arevisible.
Whether you're looking in thesubway platform or storefront
windows or law enforcement.
Law enforcement was vilified andwill continue to be vilified.
Basic standards of law and orderare labeled oppressive.

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And when rules stop beingenforced, the predictable
happens.
Crime will rise, businesses willleave, and everyday people are
paying the price for this.

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Cities don't collapse becausepeople demand safety, they
collapse when leaders refuse toprovide it.
Mayor elect Mandami, whoconsistently and time and time
again believes from the river tothe sea.

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What do you have to say, David,about New York?

SPEAKER_01 (08:27):
Look, New York to me is gonna be one of two things in
four years.
Utterly destroyed or socialistcapital of New America.
It's gonna go one of two ways.
And Mamdani can't wait.
Mamdani can't wait.

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He's proven that socialism sellsto a whole generation that
doesn't know what 9-11 was,doesn't understand that
socialism, which we've talkedabout, isn't taught in schools,
and because of that, kids aregoing on going, what a wonderful
ideology.
Ignoring the fact of Venezuela,ignoring the fact what Argentina

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has emerged from, ignoringwhat's going on in Cuba, China,
Russia, other places where thiswas imposed, not ignoring the
fact that people, I know manyimmigrants who came here from
Eastern Europe and Russia whosaid this is the definition of
insanity.
But the fact that Mamdani isalso a card-carrying racist and

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that his hate towards whitepeople, Jews, you name it, is uh
is brushed under the rug.
It's it's it's extraordinary,Stuart.
If we go back to the lastepisode, we talked about the
media and the media is what'swrong with the media.
This is a great example.
They made excuses for a guywho's a traitor, he's a traitor.

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He's supported the notion ofdeath to America.
Imagine as a leader of thelargest city in America chanting
death to America.
Whoa, baby, because that's whatyou're doing.
Because socialism doesn't existin the United States, it's not
what the fundamentals of theUnited States is.
The fundamentals is capitalism,whether you like it or not.

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And yes, it's unaffordable inNew York.
Yes, there are many otherthings, but to go ahead and to
say, you know what, we're gonnatake capitalism, Wall Street,
everything that makes New Yorkwhat it is, and we're gonna toss
it in the garbage.
Holy moly, what four years fromnow, what New York City might
look like.

SPEAKER_00 (10:35):
David, cities don't collapse because people demand
safety, they collapse whenleaders refuse to provide it.
It's New York remains a warningto every major metro city
flirting with these slogans.
You bet.
David, as we talk about slogansand we hit our number one topic

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2025, it's called antisemitism.
Antisemitism is no longerlurking in the shadows, it's
marching openly through Westerninstitutions that once claimed
moral superiority.
What makes this moment uniquelydangerous isn't the hatred

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itself, but how quickly it'sbeing rationalized.
We are watching a historicallycondemned prejudice get
rebalanced as context,resistance, and justice,
depending on who's speaking andwho is being targeted.
The most alarming part is theinstitutional complicity.

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Universities hesitate to enforcetheir own rules of conduct,
corporate leaders issuestatements that manage optics
rather than principles, andpolitical leaders parse language
so carefully that thecondemnation becomes meaningless
and watered down.
When hatred is conditional, whenit depends on the victim, it

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stops being a moral stance andbecomes a political calculation,
and history, David, has shownits ugly head.

SPEAKER_01 (12:18):
You know what?
Beautiful words.
The reality, ladies andgentlemen, in what we've seen
today when it comes toanti-Semitism is who cares?
It doesn't only it's only beenabout a week since Bandai Beach
when 15 Jews were killed on abeach celebrating Hanukkah.
But the media doesn't want tosay they're Jews, these were

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people at a Jewish event.
It's not the same thing, can'tgive Jews any sympathy, despite
what happened on October 7th,2023, despite an obvious
targeting of Jews that but wewhat they did was the one
gentleman who one of the peoplewho was caught on camera saving

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Jews and attack and and anddisarming one of the terrorists,
he's getting a lot of thenotoriety, he's getting the
attention.
What a way to go to get awayfrom the anti-Semitism.
You know, we're hearing Islam isIslamophobia equals
anti-anti-Semitism on the sameon the same vein, and the
statistics are completelynegating that philosophy.

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Antisemitism is at extraordinaryhighs.
The per capita rates, the actualrates, you name, take any
statistic you want.
It makes no sense that this tinypercentage of a population has
this disproportionate number ofattacks globally, and yet, as
soon as there's an anti-Semitismsomething, we throw in
Islamophobia.

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Despite the fact that in Canada,for example, in Europe, there
are more Muslims than Jews, andyet they want that attention.
And anytime something happens tothe Jewish community, they have
to have be at the forefront.
Stuart, if you tell me sinceOctober the 7th how many

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mosques, Muslim communitycenters were attacked with
long-range rifles, where peoplewere killed, the answer is zero.
None on a global scale.
But look how many Jewishinstitutions were fired at,
firebombed, destroyed, peoplenearly killed.

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And of course, on Bondi Beach,what we saw was the death.
The disproportionate attentionis disgusted.
The media doesn't want to help,politicians don't want to help.
And what you saw with PrimeMinister Albanese in Australia
is exactly what I'm talkingabout.
This was an anti-Semitic attack.

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His answer was we need betterlegislation for guns.
No, Mr.
Albanese.
What you need is to stoppandering to the immigrants and
the radical Islamists that youthink are voting you in.
This is what's happened in NewYork.
This is what's going to happenin the US.
This is what's happened inCanada.
This is happening in WesternEurope.

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It is consistent that the Jewishcommunity is part of the
foundation of any community,regardless of where they are in
the world.
Jews integrate into society tomake it better.
They're contributors to society.
Stewart has been very vocalabout this.
We add with medical, science,economics, you name it, Jews

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become a plus in society.
Ask yourself now what's going onin France and Belgium when Jews
are disappearing, what'sreplaced.
That is what anti-Semitism isdoing to you.
And by the way, it's not goingto stop with Jews.

SPEAKER_00 (15:46):
Listen, political Islamist uh practice is what's
outlawed in most.
I'm going to call them WesternArabian countries.
History has shown us thatanti-Semitism is never an
isolated phenomena, it's awarning sign.
Societies that tolerate it aresignaling that truth, fact, and

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humanity, dignity arenegotiable.
And when the Arabic peninsula issaying to the world that Islamic
political behavior is nottolerated here, and we welcome
it here, that should beconcerning everyone, not just
Jewish communities, butcommunities around the world.

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David, this brings this 2025year to a close.
And before I sign off formyself, allowing you to sign off
for yourself for 2025, so don'tbe afraid.

SPEAKER_01 (16:46):
Oh, thank you for that.

SPEAKER_00 (16:47):
I want to wish everyone a health and happy and
a prosperity for the year tocome.
I hope that we find peace andcivility.
I hope that we findunderstanding and tolerance.
And I hope we put an end to thisugly head called anti-Semitism,

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which was the number one issuethat we brought up in 2025.
Believe it or not, though, itdidn't garner the most amount of
clicks, which is probably themost discerning for me.
Because when hatred lifts itsweary head as a snake out of a

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bush, and if you don't beheadthat snake, it will likely bite
you in the future.
And that, David, is why I am youknow cautiously optimistic.
I hope that in 2026, David and Isort of fine-tune our rant as we
have in the last quarter of 25.

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And I hope that in 26 it shedslight for all.

SPEAKER_01 (18:02):
Well, Stuart, wonderful words, and I really
want to echo that.
We should be all blessed with ayear of health, happiness,
success, and peace in 2026.
And it's not just anti-Semitism.
I would it would be blissful ifanti-Semitism would be okay.
But ladies and gentlemen, 2026is looking to be another one of
those roller coaster years.

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Divisive attitudes, difficultarguments, and we've talked
about in our top 10 about whatis getting in the way in
society.
We've we've ranted about it.
We're no psychiatrists, we're nopsychologists, but what we are
just two guys.
We're just fed up and tired.
And we hope that in 2026 thingswill improve just a little bit.

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And on that note, we'll see youguys back live with new
recordings as of January the5th.
We are gonna take a littlevacay.
We need it.
So we'll see the top 10.
We'll have a couple of our topepisodes before between now and
January the 2nd, but on the 5th,guys, we'll be back louder than
ever.