Actually, according to the 1923 Supreme Court interpretation of the Naturalization Act, you could also become a naturalized citizen if you were of African descent. 1924 was when Native Americans were included. Gotta exclude those Asiatics, though. But this is too complicated to put in that one line so… yeah.
I wanted Steve and Bucky to be in more worker strikes, but apparently the biggest ones in NYC were either immediately post-WWII, or in 1911 following the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, and most of the protestors were Jewish women who worked in the garment industry. (And lbr, they totally missed the Civil Rights movement.)
Here’s the quick Wikipedia link to the child labor thing. 🙂 I learned so much making this comic!
Happy Birthday, Steve. The world is not that great right now, both here and in Marvel-verse, but let’s keep on trucking.
Let me back up. If you were busy on Tuesday, you missed Some Shit™ going down. Michael Avenatti, Stormy
Daniels’s lawyer, actually knows how to lawyer. He pulled on the thread
of the LLC that was used to pay her off and unraveled a whole flying
carpet of Russian donations and US corporate bribery to the same account.
– okay, so the best part of this is that Robert Mueller absolutely, without question, has whatever FinCEN has on Cohen, Trump, and the whole gang. He has more than Avenatti does, and he’s had it for months. A huge portion of his team are financial crimes experts. There’s no way FinCEN wasn’t one of their first stops. And it gives me great joy to picture their interaction:
Mueller, strolling into FinCEN with Starbucks: Hey, guys, how’s it going? Listen, do you have any SARs on… all these assholes?
FinCEN: Mmm-hmm.
Mueller: Yes. I will take all the deep fried goods involving these people.
FinCEN, snapping its collective gum: Yeah, lemme run you some copies. One sec.
So the next time the Trump administration keeps you up at night, I want you to close your eyes and envision the number of industrial-size toner cartridges that have given their lives in service to Mr. Mueller’s investigation. Look at the size of that pile. Just look at it. It’s so beautiful. I think of all those depleted black plastic cylinders, and I smile.
LOL, Avenatti is not quitting anytime soon.
Remember that wacky period before the inauguration when C-SPAN had cameras in the lobby of Trump Tower? Avenatti does.
Okay, here’s my thing about this scene and it hit me when I first watched it but has taken me a while (and some conversation) to put into words.
Peggy, for a moment, seems rather uncomfortable with the idea of stealing food, where the other girls encourage it, even praising each other for it. This to me, seems to underline a real cultural difference. Peggy, having grown up in England with the rationing and the Blitz spirit, would have had a very much ‘make, do and mend’ mindset. What you had, you shared. Stealing or fiddling rations was not only very frowned upon by others, but could be punishable.
The American girls, on the flipside, probably grew up young in the Depression. When there was food, you took it and you took as much as you could, because who knows when it would be there again? They have made ingenious solutions to avoid waste, and to avoid hunger. They eat like women who have known what it feels like to not have anything to fill a hungry belly.
That being said, I don’t think less of either set of women. I just think it’s an interesting dichotomy.
Mostly, of course, yay lady friendships and MOAR PLEASE.
YES ALL OF THIS. It’s a total two-nations-divided thing, on one hand you’ve got the full on stiff upper lip oh no thanks awfully i’ve had quite enough versus, GIRL ARE YOU SERIOUS LEMME FILL YOUR HANDBAG WITH GRAVY.
Also, I love how surprised and impressed Peggy is by their resourcefulness. All the food-swiping would be the kind of thing you’d expect an observant spy to spot instantly, so the fact she hasn’t suggests to me that she’s either been absent from a lot of mealtimes or too wrapped up in her own concerns. And it leads me to hope this is the start of her becoming more integrated into the Griffith circle because LADY FRIENDSHIPS.
Also also I know having a moment where all the Griffith girls band together to get Peggy out of a jam like some sort of Voltron of Moxie would be as cheesy as hell but I STILL WANT IT
yes yes but most importantly CHICKEN POCKET
THIS WAS MY FAVORITE SCENE
Rather than being due to country of origin I think a lot of this comes down to class. Peggy is posh and probably went to a posh school. I doubt she ever went really hungry until she was out on missions. By the time rationing came around she probably would have been working for the SSR and probably got more rations than the general public. I haven’t actually seen Agent Carter yet so I’m only going on info available from other stuff but I doubt Peggy grew up not knowing where her next meal would come from. Also while there was make do and mend mentality and you shared what you had with you and yours there was a huge amount of crime and black market stuff during the war/Blitz. I’m sure there was a lot of getting what ever you could and everyone else can get stuffed.
knitting in the dark 