Not a stupid question at all. The uniparty (especially the Neo Communists) has been shredding the Constitution for decades and keeps getting away with it more and more.

who gave biden the power to forgive student loans?

who gave the FBI the power t o spy on Americans?

who gave biden the power to open the border and give stuff to il-legals?

got me

After reading your headline, my first thought is, which pipeline is he talking about, Keystone or Nordstream? Second thought, we did through our inaction…

The bigger question is how we react because something must be done. The FBI is bought and paid for, same goes for the DOJ, our power ultimately is in out states, we must reel in the power of the federal government. If we continue to do nothing, soon we’ll lose all our natural god given rights.

Our founding fathers even provided for us to recover if we were not successful at reeling in the power of the federal government, read the 2nd amendment, its short…

Good Lord, I just read the Keystone Pipeline could employ 9,000 people to operate it. Why do we have any unemployment?

"So long as men, in the era of savagery,
had no concept of objective reality and
believed that physical nature was ruled
by the whim of unknowable demons –
no thought, no science, no production
were possible. Only when men
discovered that nature was a firm,
predictable absolute were they able to
rely on their knowledge, to choose their
course, to plan their future and, slowly,
to rise from the cave. Now you have
placed modern industry, with its
immense complexity of scientific
precision, back into the power of
unknowable demons – the unpredictable
power of the arbitrary whims of hidden,
ugly little bureaucrats. A farmer will not
invest the effort of one summer if he's
unable to calculate his chances of a
harvest. But you expect industrial giants
– who plan in terms of decades, invest in
terms of generations and undertake
ninety-nine-year contracts – to continue
to function and produce, not knowing
what random caprice in the skull of what
random official will descend upon them
at what moment to demolish the whole
of their effort. Drifters and physical
laborers live and plan by the range of a
day. The better the mind, the longer the
range. A man whose vision extends to a
shanty, might continue to build on your
quicksands, to grab a fast profit and run.
A man who envisions skyscrapers, will
not. Nor will he give ten years of
unswerving devotion to the task of
inventing a new product, when he knows
that gangs of entrenched mediocrity are
juggling the laws against him, to tie
him,, restrict him and force him to fail,
but should he fight them and struggle
and succeed, they will seize his rewards
and his invention...- Atlas Shrugged

Who exactly owns the pipeline? I thought several oil companies owned it.

One could argue that the President has the authority to "pressure" the agencies underneath him, to revoke the Federal permit needed for the 1,200-mile project. It could be as simple as him picking up the phone and telling the head of the agency in charge of said permit, "Cancel that permit or you are out of a job."

Most people need the income to feed their family, so they roll over and do as they are told. That's what we saw with the vaccine mandates (which weren't even laws). People just went out and got the clot shot just because their employer told them it was going to be a requirement of employment. I was shocked how few pushed back!

Even my Christian neighbor just up and got the clot shot when his employer, IBM, said it would eventually be required. I was aghast! He had no backbone. He could have filed a religious exemption or simply said NO, but he just rolled right over and injected himself with the bioweapon.

Back to your question though. The reason why he shut down the pipeline is because he's following Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals", in which you...

1. CREATE A PROBLEM: "Oh no! We're having a gas shortage and prices are through the roof! How did this happen? It's not my fault, I'm just the President!"

2. GENERATE A REACTION: "Oh no! People are now rioting in the streets, demanding lower gas prices! Whatever will we do? As your President, surely I can help the government can come up with a solution."

3. SOLUTION: "My fellow Americans, we've come up with a solution to the high gas prices! We're going to institute a Smart Phone App that rations the amount of gas you can buy (recently instituted in Sri Lanka) and it'll be tied to your new Social Credit Score (better not disparage the government!) that is tied to your programmable central bank digital currency (that we can turn off at any time). And while we are at it, we're going to nationalize the gas industry to ensure this doesn't happen again! (seize the means of production)."

And all the sheep, that aren't falling dead from heart attacks, will go along with it.

Prepare accordingly.

It wasn't so much that we gave anyone "the power". They just took it and we did nothing to stop it. but....what could we have done??

As for the first part of your question, he's following the orders of his globalist lords and masters.
They want to drive us back to the Dark Ages, where the global overlords are in charge, and the rest of us are slaves.
Remember they way Europe was described in Atlas Shrugged? That's what they want on the whole planet. But in order to do that, they have to crash us first.
Once America falls, the rest will be a domino effect.

The Executive Branch has long been a problem since presidents started relying heavily on Executive Orders. One can certainly point to Theodore Roosevelt as the modern progenitor of this unhappy state of affairs, which then took off under Woodrow Wilson and then FDR. And it has only gotten worse since WW II with each executive leader using that power to undo the previous executive in a never-ending tit-for-tat.

I'm still trying to figure out how it should work for Executive Orders. Obviously the President should be able to direct the work of the Executive Branch of government. But he shouldn't be able to usurp the authority which should remain in the other two branches - especially the oft-abused "rule-making" authority which bureaucrats use to effectively create laws. The answer may be as simple as excising many of these bureaucratic agencies - thus eliminating their presence and with it anyone to seek more control.

Not a stupid question, at all.
A better question would be: why have we stood by, and ALLOWED Brandon to do these things?
"We the People", and all that.

It was a major stab in the back at every nation in Western Europe -- all of which were likely to surrender to Putin as soon as the weather gets cold this winter. Which still may happen but will not be as effective now.

I think it has more to do with the Federal control of the land or whatnot where the pipeline is being built. Thus ceasing work as the Federal Govt will basically raid or destroy it because they are violating whatever BS Order was being pushed on the building of the pipeline.

Cutting that really damaged a lot of aspects of the US economy and energy policy. Wasn't there another branch to be built go to go refineries in Colorado or something? or from Colorado? (I think i'm mis-remembering some aspect now. work has turned my brain to mush lately!)

What galls me is he promised the unions he wouldn't shut it down if he was elected. He double crossed them. Why am I not surprised?

You should understand by now, Biden isn't capable doing anything beyond pooping his pants and mumbling incoherent, stupid platitudes. He sat in his basement the entire campaign. He is, by all reasonable definition, an illegitimate pResident. Anyway you look at it, this was a coup.
Who every actually controls this country clearly wants to destroy it. And by all accounts, doing a damn fine job of it.
We are witnessing the second burning of Rome. There is no authority, there is no Constitution, this is a raging dumpster fire.
"Atlas Shrugged" Is no long in the fiction section of your local public library.

Resist.

Biden told us that he wanted a "great reset", and the end to fossil fuels. He has been methodically acting to make these two promises come true. He wants gasoline to cost $10 a gallon to get people to willingly end fossil fuels. he is using up our strategic reserve also so there is less fossil fuel available, and he is stopping leases to drill for more.