Alright since Q's not here I'll have to explain this to you all. Of course, all you smart anons already know this, so this is mostly for the shills.
The Shutdown was a "Show". It may seem a little risky to hold back the pay of 800k people, but in the end the risk isn't as high as it seems since they ultimately WILL get paid their backpay, and by "holding them hostage" it forces people to pay attention to the issue. What issue? One thing, and one thing only:
THE BIG BEAUTIFUL WALL
For the past 30+ days, everyone has been debating the merits and problems of a wall. It doesn't work / It works everywhere! Everyone weighs in on it. We know most people who say "It doesn't work" are lying to themselves. The only have to look outside their window and witness their fence, or closer still: the wall that the window is cut out of the prevents their family from harm. Wall's work, everyone knows this.
So then everyone asks, why though? What's the threat? Are there really gangsters pouring over? Many will actually, FINALLY, look into it, and find out.. holy shit, who is this MS13 gang? Illegals cost HOW much? Wait, how many Illegals are there really? 11m? But that stat hasn't been updated for 10 years? What's going ON??
Of course, the die hards (who DO know it's the right thing to do but will not consent no matter what because Fuck Drumph) will still say OPEN BORDERS. But now they're the fringe idiots and they're exposed.
The Democrats are stupid though. They won't realise that a cultural shift just happened and are still going to push against funding for the wall. Funding that they themselves wanted mere years ago. Damn hypocrites.
We, who have been following Q since the start, always knew that the plan was having the Military build the wall. Period. This is still the plan. The politicians are too bought and paid for by the Gangs of Mexico and the Overlords of the NWO. Period. POTUS has the power of the USMIL, it was ever his only chance of building it.
BUT!!!!! This part is the key!!
He can't just do it. He can't just blindly declare a fucking emergency. If he did it cold, people would freak the fuck out at him. Even centrists would freak out at him. But, by warming the waters through the national conversation of the Longest Shutdown in History, now not only centrists but leftleaners will actually think "Ahh.. fuck it, maybe/maybe not there's an emergency, what harm could a wall be anyway, let him build his silly little wall".
So now what would have been a draconian dictator like power grab (in their eyes) becomes a "whatever, fucker, just..whatever" move in the minds of the majority.
BUT!
The democrats would have had the power to stop this if they held the Senate and the SCOTUS. This was KEY, as Q has said. The House didn't matter, and in fact it's actually better optics to give the useless House to the Democrats to make them embarrass themselves daily.
Getting the picture?
WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR XMAS?!