Ms Rand for President of the United States of America (in 2028)

Rachel Lydia Rand





Welcome! Thanks for your interest in my presidential campaign.

I'm keeping this page intentionally short. My in depth information can be found on www.moth8.com. :-)




Rachel's Music

RLR

Simmer 3

Rachel's Political History

Federal Elections Commission

Ballotpedia

KATU

LWV Candidate Forum 2024

Rachel's Panama Story

In 1998, as our US Navy Destroyer was getting ready to go through the Panama Canal after we went around the perimeter of South America and played the commissioning ceremony of the USS Bonhomme Richard Helicopter Carrier in Santiago Chile, we went to an ATM machine to get some United States money. What came out was some radically different looking money with that security strip in it and some kind of special watermark. When we boarded a plane to go home, I saw out of my window, 5 C-141 Starlifter aircraft lined up perfectly on the huge runway.

When we returned home, the same cash was being dispensed from the ATM machines. It was the debut of that new security money. And when we toured Africa 6 months prior to that, my name Rand was on their currency.

Perhaps it's time to release a bunch of gold out of Fort Knox to make some more bass strings like the ones I use?

Rachel's Career History

Rachel's Resume

My Cover Letter

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I served as a US Navy Musician from Nov 1992 through July 2000. I was stationed in Memphis TN where I played for Hillary Clinton in 1994, with Ray Charles in 1995 and with the Memphis Jazz Orchestra weekly for 3 years. I was married to Ann Argodale for 7 years. Ann plays bass trombone, did concrete work on the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago, made mouthpieces at Schilke, and worked at the Virginia Symphony where she took conducting lessons from Joann Faletta. One of the last pictures I had from her was of Joanne taking a picture of her with Yo-Yo Ma on a private plane flight.

I played trombone for President Bill Clinton in a smallish hanger on Norfolk Naval Base in 1999. I waited for 4 hours in the summer heat once on the top of an air craft carrier for the CNO to show up (his little plane was late, likely story). Our feet in our rubber "corfram" shoes melting into the textured deck. "Hey, can we just take the aircraft lift down to the hanger?"

The small retirement ceremony with the 9, 4 Star Admiral Chaplins was a Nice Touch! As was the debut of the new American currency when we were in Panama :-) You know, the first time they had that little security strip in it?

We're Ann+Rand like that and now I play and sing Rush songs on 13+ musical instruments and have 60-100 musicial composition/recordings of my own on my website.

Ann had a Ford F-150 truck with an 8' bed with a cap and a custom roll out drawer for plywood and pancake air compressors. She had a Chicago street dog, a female named Fred and then we got another similar dog, a female FOX hound named Larry (crying all the time, you ain't no friend of mine!) We're absolutely silly like that.

....needless to say, Ann was amazingly transmasculine at the time and I love her that way (she never had a problem with pronouns, but I do!) So you know, we are the real deal here with how I've been waking up at 4am for 4 years and how we met on the 4th of July 1993 and then soon after made love for the first time on TREASURE ISLAND. This is NOT a dream. This is my crazy life story.

It's very political and although I did have some nice groupies in high school, I've never had anything like a normal music fan. After running my website for 26 years, I've got compliments on it and my music about 3 times in my life. I know it's good stuff, so this is just absurd human ridiculouness. (you know how "they" (you) like to jab fun at the president :-)


They/We are just trying to get your attention so we can distribute some important information that can't fit into a compact song lyric....


A demo of my 1992 music transcription of Big Time from Miles Davis' album Amandla featuring Miles, Kenny Garrett and Marcus Miller:
Big Time

* I changed my voter registration to "not a member of a party" in May 2025 because of lack of financial support from ALL of my democratic efforts/campaigns in the last decade. (the opposite / try the other handle, I'm not a party person anyway. I'm not that kind of gurl!)


Some of my political research from Winter 2024 (it has a nice mapping feature link on it):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Oregon


My 2024 campaign tag line:


"Keeping a civil society in the drawdown years.

Global warming, the state of our topsoil and the inevitable end of oil, a substance we use to pave our roads and shingle our houses, makes sustaining a population of 8-10 billion people an unlikely proposition."

- Rachel Lydia Rand


* "Perhaps it is more about the end of our ability to mass produce metal which we need to make factories to make automobiles, bicycles and refrigerators?" - 2025 Rachel Lydia Rand


I welcome people reaching out to help with my campaign as volunteers, campaign manager and campaign staff.

It's like yes, there are unions. I recognize you. Not sure where the presidential union office is, but it still seems reasonable to head this little organization on my own.

I'm essentially and overachiever. I'm highly proficient on 13+ musical instruments including vocals, but I've never had a single fan. As I was performing with my Ms Rand for President sign out last night, I had someone pass me and say "You've got my vote." Wow! First time that happened I believe. Thousands have voted for me of course and I voted for myself for President last time, so it is progress.

What I really need is a roadie. I'm strugging physically big time. I need help with transportation. I go out with my sign everyday now. Just like arrange to drive me and my stuff to a location and then split for a few hours. Or stay. Then transport back to my place or somewhere else. Like 2 performance places a day. Time at the library for posting.

You know, split duties with your friend! I need all the help I can get. Need to get radically famous here quickly. This IS NOT a wait for 2027 type of deal. I need to win this 2028 election with a landslide. The powers that be have absolutely got my attention and I believe it is the end of the monetary systems around the world. Without near 100% employment, money doesn't work so well. Some people will have millions of dollars and the majority of people will have nothing at all. And yet almost everyone is living in a nice place this evening. It's a big deal and I need your help in this.

I know it's time consuming. Consider how much time, unpaid time, I've put into this effort. Asking someone to step up and apply at the commander in chief's (in training) enlistment office. right? Just reach out. Step in the door. "I'd like to be in the military." That's the way it works with a lot of jobs. They don't pay you in boot camp for the first month either, so step on board and welcome to professional life. We'll see what we can do together....

(entry in the military is pretty basic, this is a light roadie position with room for growth)

rachel.lydia.rand @ gmail.com

2025-06-20    11:11:35 AM








Q: Do we have a problem with Homelessness in Portland Oregon? If so, how can we solve it?



So, perhaps ask a 3x former US Reprenstative candidate with a year of experience living on the streets in 2004 while sober studing 3 dimensional, and 4 DIMENSIONAL (collision detection), math.

Here is my page of interest from the US 2020 Census on the matter:

https://data.census.gov/table/DECENNIALDHC2020.H3?d=DEC+Demographic+and+Housing+Characteristics



You see, my internet research skills which started with Windows 3.11 for Workgroups and continued through 20+ years of professional software engineering and over a decade of political campaigning (not armchair politics but IN THE RACE / ON THE BALLOT), have done some good.

You can apply my technique that I leaned on the web just now to remove the commas from the census report in Excel or your favorite data crunching program, to do some AUTO-SUM or other calculations on the raw data. You should find, as I did, that approximately 10% of housing units in the USA, about 13,000,000 places, are VACANT at any point in time.

Yet we spend millions, if not BILLIONS of dollars to fight this problem, employing all kinds of people to be condensending to these people who smell bad on the bus because of the generosity of the people of this, and likely other cities around the world, who just love politicians, business as usual, and corporations who organize to build automobiles with evil computer automation which your presidential candidate knows how to code, absolutely.

It must be some complicated system of getting these cars made so people can get to the office to help these poor lost souls get some toilet paper.

-- I get a little snarky at this problem and all of its publicity backed by pure logic.


2025-06-20    10:15 AM

Theory: Perhaps people are reluctant to make small donations to me and my campaign for fear of my gaining mass support?

I started knocking on doors saying "I'm Rand and I'm running for President of the United States of America. May I have a minute of your time?" in 2014. You know, it's pretty difficult for people to win a Presidential election. Are you really that afraid of me? Do you want finacial integrity in elections and campaign finance? Have I earned enough respect through decades of campaigning and study, on the ballot 3x for Federal Legislative positions to earn a reasonable $40,000/year income from it? Or perhaps even a little more to get a 150sqft office space as well as is required by the business laws around the country?

You're really that afraid of this 130lb transwoman jazz musician software engineer?

Here is my entry in the 2018 Voter Pamphlet in the Primary Election in Oregon:
https://records.sos.state.or.us/ORSOSWebDrawer/RecordView/6873534

I'm on page 36 next to Representative Blumenauer. Look, my platform has evolved over the years. And it's not like Earl is speaking the whole truth there either. At least one of us is currently running for US President. And one of us is in need of laundry money. Excessive experience with extreme poverty and stretching out on the middle seats of a 747 is part of my training. right?

2025-06-01    03:38:56 AM










Ms Rand for President in 2028 Platform

It's my understanding that I have been trained extensively throughout my life to be the president who ushers in post-industrialism (not the Ronald Reagan service sector stuff, but actually the end of industrialism). It's certainly a huge social and engineering shift. Too intense to spell out on this page, but you know, just the keyword of "post-industrialism" should be enough to spark ideas in everyone reading this what it is about.

* I do have a sense of humor about this stuff: Rachel Dealing with Human Ridiculousness (it's a comedy, you'll like it!)


2025-06-20

I came up with a new way to describe my platform:

Consider the world, globally, entering a phase of permanent lockdown like we saw during the 2020 Covid Pandemic, but enforced with a one gallon of gas per week per automobile, law. There is a sticker on a sign a block away from my house that magically appeared a week ago that says something like "A system is not defined by its rules but by how they are enforced."

There is some sense in that of course, but I employ "don't get paranoid" on it. We're doing what we have to to keep this nice, mostly civil society we have going. If you think about it, the monetary system of a configuration like that is certainly different. I work excessively in an odd, philosphical way, to figure all these things out. And I often vent about the insantiy of not getting paid for my work. Please bear with me. This is part of my job.


My last name, the name I've always gone by, RAND, is the name of the dollar in South Africa. So there, I'm kind of President (candidate) Dollar. : -)

There is a huge psychology edge to it. The engineering of fuel distribution and production from a HIGH gear growing economy to a LOW gear dystopian post-industrial economy. If this is-real, then obviously there has been a massive effort to put a lot of this into place. This kind of thing needs a huge stage setting event. But flicking the switch will certainly be an overnight kind of deal, globally.

Whatever president flicks that switch, when it happens, we will know. We're likely out of something like coal, just like the Billy Joel song suggested in the 1980's. It was a warning shot as was the pandemic which I seem to have been involved in with my October 2019 mailing of 10,000 "Move the Needle on Climate Change" flyers to the Portland State University student area of town.

If this happens, I'm predicting that 80% of people will be unemployed, permanently. Gas will likely get rationed to 1 gallon a week per car. Some people supplying essential services will get more. We'll keep things going as best as we can, for as long as we can. But without steel production, these cars will get old and stop working and there will be no new ones to replace them.

And that leads into my physical activity lifestyle of riding my bicycle for transportation since 1990 and of course former US Representative Earl Blumenauer's well known bicycling. It seems like a big deal.

right?

That's what I understand of my life and the world. Please support me by going to my moth8.com site to read all my musings on the details. And my music of course. I play 13 musicial instruments at last count. I also code software including music synthesizers and controlling hardware of industrial machines.

We're still in capitalisic industrialism until the products and gas stop flowing, and I need monetary support like anyone else in this society. I have my 4th autobiographical political book out on Amazon Kindle now. Just search for Rachel Lydia Rand there and you'll see my [ m o t h ] 2024 book. It's a comedy this time and is just 31 pages. Certainly my best work to date. My next book will be an Ayn Rand type reflection on Objects. Many people like to say we are social creatures and that is fair enough. But I tend to thing that behind the scenes of that we are really language creatures. And we are certainly highly advanced mechanical creatures as well. We're just wild space aliens like that. Every one of us. Born into the space age. And this whole plot was likely put into place long before any of us were born. And people have put tons of work into creating all this stuff in our lifetimes.

That's what I know! carry on with the plan of the day



Suport Ms Rand for President in 2028

I'm available for speaking engagements. It's pretty standard that presidential candidates do speaking engagements and publish autobiographical books and other writings. And I'm certainly a trained performer having played 2,000 gigs doing improvised jazz trombone. I love speaking!

So, if you would like to have me as your keynote speaker, send me an email at moth.lydia.rand@gmail.com. I'll need a fair amount of hand holding to make this work as I am totally burned out on doing things all by myself. I'll certainly be bringing a few musical instruments and my computer rig. It's certainly all built to be portable, but it is more than I can reasonably carry at one time. So I need a helper with me or money to hire a helper. I expect to be fairly well compensated. As long as these cars are still moving at their normal frequency and products are as well, then capitalistic industrialism is certianly still in control and I'm running a major political campaign.

Having a blast at all this of course and the comedy has been a nice addition to my writing and monolog routine which I have been practicing constantly since August 2024. I'm looking forward to meeting you! I'd love the meeting and greets to be fairly limited, and you know, I love to talk business, so anxious to hear what your stake in the business world is.

My book for Amazen Kindle is here: m o t h [ 2024 book ]. I love printing out personalized copies as well and getting creative with them.

Ms Rand for President: Mission Statement

I am here to help people. Help people transition from capitalist industrialism to dystopian post-industrialism. I can help by:

1) Inspiring and sharing about exercise & transportation.
2) Inspire and educate about cooking. (not so much about agriculture)
3) Inspire and educate about music through my solo music efforts. Free to use my samples and copy my lines!
4) Inspire and educate about addiction recovery and grace.
5) Inspire people to work passionately without pay instead of leading passive or party lifestyles.
6) Educate about world geography and other findings and theories.
7) Entertain through my website and well paid solo performances with my comedy/music show.
8) Inspire and educate about software creation and servers.


Two ways currently to contribute to my camapaign:

1) paypal.me/RachelLydiaRand (I'll need official name/address/occupation information from you, so send me an email at moth.lydia.rand@gmail.com or perhaps it gives me your email. Please donate so I can make things more solid and official.

2) Contribute online with Raise the Money: Rachel Lydia Rand (Ms Rand) for President in 2028 on Raise the Money



Send me an email to donate/contribute to my campaign/work. People are just completely ridiculous with me. Running for president the way I am is one of the weirdest businesses out there. Look, all presidents write books, right? My book is on Amazon. I need money to pay for a mailbox so you can send me a check, not that anyone ever did except for my software engineering work. I deserve to be paid for this work and I'll continuing fighting this battle, to the death. I hate the idea that you are all trying to get me to be 100% homeless on the streets running for president.

It's just justified anger. Or maybe I'm just too old school for you and it's ethnic cleansing? Who knows?

Research on "unspoken societal rules" essentially said that going up to someone's door unsolicited is not cool, even without a "no soliciting" sign out. I'm not doing that again. I've done enough of that. Cold calling is difficult, esspecially when your product is politics. If I'm cold calling you, it's likely that I want to know how your business runs and how your life has gone, not to try to get money from you. Got that? I'm just trying to do my job.





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