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2007

2008

  • 2008-02-04 · Obama Says Subscribe — Hank says nothing would scare him more than Republicans in the White House again, rejecting talk that things can't get much worse. — 00:01:32
  • 2008-02-04 · Obama Says Subscribe — Hank says this is not a Nerdfighter endorsement: nerdfighters span every color, race, creed and political persuasion, Republicans included. — 00:02:31
  • 2008-02-04 · Obama Says Subscribe — Hank says Republicans generally don't treat the environment as an issue, and McCain, who does, has a much weaker climate plan than Obama or Clinton. — 00:02:31
  • 2008-02-21 · People Who Love Giraffes Who Love Giraffes — John: Asked which Republican presidential candidate he'd vote for, John jokes Abraham Lincoln; of living ones, he votes for the individual not the party and wants none of them. (playful) — 00:02:17
  • 2008-03-04 · SETTING THE QUESTION TUESDAY WORLD RECORD — John: Asked whether he'd rather drink his own pee or vote for a current Republican candidate, John says it depends on how much pee: a few drops, sure. (playful) — 00:00:57
  • 2008-06-04 · VEEPSTAKES! — John: On Joe Biden: the best grasp of foreign policy in the Senate and knows Sunnis from Shias, unlike certain Republican nominees; but he is too 'Joe Biden-y'. (playful) — 00:01:15
  • 2008-06-04 · VEEPSTAKES! — John: On Jim Webb: former Republican and Secretary of the Navy, a big military guy who writes genuinely good novels; but he has a reputation for misogyny. — 00:02:42
  • 2008-06-04 · VEEPSTAKES! — John: On Chuck Hagel: a moderate Republican opposed to the war, a Vietnam veteran, Western and Catholic; but his opposition to stem cell research won't fly with many Democrats. (playful) — 00:03:12
  • 2008-06-16 · Maine Inspires Deep Thoughts — Hank says he is 100% in favour of there being Republican nerdfighters. — 00:00:40
  • 2008-08-29 · Sarah Palin: An Introduction — John tells Hank, who does not like watching the news, what he needs to know about presumptive Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, a pick that surprised John. — 00:00:02
  • 2008-08-29 · Sarah Palin: An Introduction — John says Palin is reliably conservative on social issues important to the Republican base: strongly pro-life, against gay marriage and a lifelong NRA member. — 00:00:34
  • 2008-08-29 · Sarah Palin: An Introduction — ask: John asks Nerdfighters, particularly Republican nerdfighters, to say in comments what they think of the Palin pick. — 00:02:22
  • 2008-09-26 · Obama Llama Song — Hank: The song says Republicans claim to want change but then want to stay the same; the singer will vote neither left nor right, only for change. (playful) — 00:00:26

2009

2010

  • 2010-09-06 · I HATE PENNIES!!!! (Also Nickels.) — John: Second, John says coinage reform isn't partisan: about half its major advocates in the last ten years were Republicans and half Democrats, so it fires up no base. — 00:03:10
  • 2010-11-15 · Hey! You! Fix the Budget! — John says the astonishing thing is that even all the Democratic leadership's tax increases plus all the Republican leadership's spending cuts would still leave a huge deficit. — 00:00:59
  • 2010-12-20 · Thoughts on the Project for Awesome — Hank jokes that Mike Huckabee's attempt to 'hack' the Republican presidential nomination kept P4A from taking over the whole first page of 'most discussed', but P4A's hack was more successful. (playful) — 00:00:19

2011

  • 2011-11-23 · Why are Barns Red and Kardashians Famous — Hank dismisses the loaded autocomplete questions 'Why are Jews liberal?' and 'Why are Republicans stupid?' with exasperation rather than answering. (playful) — 00:02:01
  • 2011-12-21 · 2011 Presidential Anagrams!! — Hank: In 2008, in the vlogbrothers' first year, Hank anagrammed the presidential candidates' names; now, nearly in 2012, he anagrams this year's (2011) Republican presidential hopefuls. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2011-12-21 · 2011 Presidential Anagrams!! — Hank says Jon Huntsman, though far behind, is pretty much his favourite of the Republican field; his anagram is 'John's Math Nun'. — 00:01:40

2012

  • 2012-04-03 · Idiotic Governance: How Our Political Discourse Hurts Our Economy — John: To be fair, John adds, some congressional Democrats want to reform Medicare, a few congressional Republicans thought the FAA funding fight an embarrassment, and President Barack Obama has consistently supported smart Medicare reform despite huge blowback from his own party. — video description
  • 2012-04-03 · Idiotic Governance: How Our Political Discourse Hurts Our Economy — John says long-term highway deals fail because they involve big numbers: Tea Party-backed Republicans oppose big spending, so rather than, say, one $250 billion bill, Congress votes for ten $30 billion bills. — 00:02:05
  • 2012-04-03 · Idiotic Governance: How Our Political Discourse Hurts Our Economy — John says Republicans have proposed interesting Medicare reforms, but Democrats refuse them as cutting seniors' care, since seniors tend to vote for Democrats. — 00:02:41
  • 2012-09-21 · You. Must. Vote. — Hank: To 'I don't live in a swing state', Hank says that if Utah Democrats or California Republicans stayed home they would be underrepresented locally and politicians would ignore their views. — 00:01:59
  • 2012-11-07 · The 51st State — Hank: The UN, President Obama, Governor Romney and both the Democratic and Republican platforms all agree Puerto Rico should decide for itself whether to become a state. — 00:01:35
  • 2012-11-07 · The 51st State — Hank: Probably all of those members of Congress would be Democrats, so a Republican House would not be excited to give statehood a supermajority. (hedged) — 00:02:26

2013

  • 2013-01-01 · Why Does Congress Suck? — John says his Indianapolis congressman is Democrat Andre Carson while his across-the-street neighbour in the same zip code has Republican Dan Burton, because the district was redrawn to take in pricier houses expected to vote Republican. — 00:01:45
  • 2013-01-01 · Why Does Congress Suck? — John says most districts are now 'landslide districts', at least 20% more Republican or Democratic than the country, so incumbents like Carson or Burton win general elections by about 30 points. — 00:02:14
  • 2013-03-12 · Understand the Sequester (Spoiler: It's Bananas.) — John says news coverage focuses on blame, with congressional Republicans calling it Obama's idea and Obama asking whether he passes legislation, which distracts from the sequester being a disaster. — 00:05:09
  • 2013-10-01 · The Lowdown on the Shutdown — Hank says Obamacare, passed in 2010 and upheld by the Supreme Court, went into full swing that day, and the Republicans are not done fighting it. — 00:00:56
  • 2013-10-01 · The Lowdown on the Shutdown — Hank says the Republican-led House voted on the continuing resolution with an added one-year delay of Obamacare; the Democrat-controlled Senate refused, saying a stopgap is not for sweeping changes to the most significant domestic policy in 50 years. — 00:01:02
  • 2013-10-01 · The Lowdown on the Shutdown — Hank says the Republicans don't actually think they will stop Obamacare, which he finds weird. — 00:01:57

2015

  • 2015-03-06 · WE WON! Net Neutrality and Re-Thinking Cynicism — Hank says the decision came down to party lines: three Democrats and two Republicans voted on the FCC, and the Republicans voted against net neutrality. — 00:02:30
  • 2015-08-11 (said on 2015-08-10, implied) · 454 Days: Understanding America's Ridiculous Political Campaigns — John: In a primer for non-Americans, John says most US states hold primary elections five to ten months before the election, where Republican and Democratic voters choose their party's candidate. — 00:01:03
  • 2015-08-18 · The Cold War of Nerdfighteria — John says he won't run a negative campaign, then jabs at Hank's hair: a haircut Tyler Oakley discarded in 2011, a young Republican's haircut, a de-mustachioed Leon Trotsky's face. (joke) — 00:02:57
  • 2015-10-20 · Nerdfighteria's Resident Comptroller? — John says Daniel is a Democrat but widely respected; a Republican member of the Illinois House once called him one of the smartest people (in cruder words) he had met. — 00:01:16
  • 2015-10-20 · Nerdfighteria's Resident Comptroller? — John says neither Illinois's Republican governor nor the Democratic legislative leaders are serious about the reform needed to end decades of fiscal mismanagement. — 00:02:24
  • 2015-10-23 · Benghazi: Explained — Hank says the controversy is so entrenched that many minds will never change: some will always believe Obama and Clinton were criminally negligent, others that it was only a Republican attack opportunity. — 00:05:46

2016

2017

2018

  • 2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Steve Bullock: Bullock says his best advice came from Republican Tom Ridge: you run for office to win, but you win to run government. — 00:05:45
  • 2018-05-22 · The Liger Delusion — John: You start with what you know is true (Republicans are crooks serving wealthy donors, or Democrats are crooks wanting government control of everything) and then look for the how and why. — 00:01:17
  • 2018-05-22 · The Liger Delusion — John says it is known that Republican donor Elliott Broidy paid a woman over a million dollars not to discuss their alleged affair. — 00:01:55
  • 2018-10-26 · The Rigged Election — Hank: A real error in a computerized election system counted a precinct of 600 voters as minus 16,000 votes for Gore; though caught, many saw it as proof machines were hacked for Bush, since the maker's CEO was a major Republican donor. — 00:00:29
  • 2018-10-26 · The Rigged Election — Hank: Many in Hank's ultra-lefty college friend group went on assuming the Republican Party had defrauded democracy and Bush was an illegitimate president. — 00:00:58
  • 2018-10-26 · The Rigged Election — Hank: Republicans have long argued individual voter fraud is a big problem, which many experts dispute, and for decades used it to pass laws making voting harder, especially for poorer people. — 00:02:33

2020

  • 2020-07-31 · Your Brain Gets Smart, but Your Head Gets Dumb — Hank says a growing number of Americans think college is bad for the country: in 2016 the share of Republicans saying college has a negative effect rose from 37% to 58%. — 00:00:42
  • 2020-10-27 · The time I met Joe Biden — John says that for the first time in over 120 years the Republican Party released no new platform this election cycle, no plan on issues from taxation to COVID. — 00:02:26

2023

2024

  • 2024-07-19 · The Assassination Attempt and the Comfort of Certainty — Hank says Crooks was a registered Republican who once gave $15 to a progressive get-out-the-vote organization. — 00:03:58
  • 2024-07-19 · The Assassination Attempt and the Comfort of Certainty — Hank says a conservative might claim Crooks registered Republican only to vote against Trump in the primary; maybe, but nobody saying it knows, and loving guns is not generally liberal. — 00:04:22
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Hank observes an influx of wealthy Montana politicians who aren't from Montana: Democrats tend to field locals, Republicans rich people not from here. — 00:01:23
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says he and his running mate Rafe are probably the only Democrats in a century to run against Republicans who raised property taxes: 'the low-tax Democrats'. (playful, hedged) — 00:08:03
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says Gianforte blamed the county commissioners for the tax rise and then sued the counties to make them collect more; the Republican commissioners can't stand him. — 00:09:33
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says Republicans now come to his events: the property tax mess showed them that voting straight ticket is not always a good deal. — 00:11:50
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says the abortion initiative I-128 polls at 65 to 70 percent, so most Republicans agree; Montanans don't want a governor in their doctor's office. — 00:32:31
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says it is incumbent on him to redefine what a Western Democrat is: direct, no teleprompter statements; Republicans gravitate to him because they believe what they say. — 00:35:09
  • 2024-10-18 · My Ballot Made Me Angry — Hank: Since Montana is a red state where Republicans are generally in power, Hank's first thought was that those in power were ordering the ballot to give themselves an advantage. (speculative) — 00:00:14
  • 2024-11-08 · These Maps are Lying (if you let them) — Hank says the popular vote-swing maps show something important but specific: the 2020-to-2024 percentage change in the Republican–Democrat spread in each county. — 00:03:04

2025

  • 2025-02-28 · We Will Eradicate Measles — Hank says his elected representatives are all Republicans, none of whom are pushing back against this. — 00:06:56
  • 2025-04-11 (said on 2025-04-10, implied) · How Actually Crazy is This Mess? — Hank approves of Republicans in Congress saying the Constitution gives the power to levy new taxes to Congress, not the president. — 00:17:13
  • 2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Adam Schiff: Schiff says both parties have marginalized moderates and made compromise a dirty word, but the problem is far worse among Republicans because the president enforces right-wing orthodoxy. — 00:06:27
  • 2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — John says most people he talks to are scared, freaked out and overwhelmed by a social media fire hose, and frustrated with both Democrats and Republicans in Congress. — 00:07:27
  • 2025-04-25 · How We Form Opinions — Hank says vaccines were once outside the ideological divide until scary stories made them a fight; vocal political pro-vaccine advocacy now gets more Democrats but fewer Republicans vaccinated, because it is tribal. — 00:06:02
  • 2025-06-10 · 90,000,000 Lives for $20 — John: A later channel comment says 'it's working': PIH hears enough moderate House Republicans told Speaker Johnson they oppose PEPFAR cuts that the White House will amend the package; keep calling. — creator comment
  • 2025-06-10 · 90,000,000 Lives for $20 — John says several Republican senators recently called cutting PEPFAR a red line, yet PEPFAR is in real danger. — 00:00:29
  • 2025-06-10 · 90,000,000 Lives for $20 — John says a Republican member of Congress told him in a recent meeting that he didn't disagree, but his constituents don't care about this. — 00:02:55
  • 2025-07-04 · This Graph Changed My Life — Hank says that seeing such comments, most people think all Fox News viewers, all Republicans and half of Americans think this way: imagining a group, we assume all its members believe the same things. — 00:01:28