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.

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??

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?

"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

The Convention of States. (ConventionOfStates.com)

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.

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…

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

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

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