This thought just occurred to me. Everything hinged on their 16 year plan to destroy the US, take our guns, enslave us, etc. Well that's all gone up in smoke. There's no conceivable way they'll be able to finish that plan in the time they have left, so at this point, they've already lost.
With that in mind, what we're currently going through, isn't them fighting to win, but rather it's them fighting to save their own skins since they know they've lost and they're trying to avoid accountability. Hence Q saying "we're watching a movie". Because everything is basically theatre at this point, and is only being allowed to happen in a specific manner so that we can avoid things like WW III, an second American Civil War, etc.
Or am I looking at this wrong?
Remember the Dingle Report? It was conservatively accurate. The cabal isn't the only one running out of time. They need the majority of surface dwellers gone prior to the catastrophe to put in place their survival plan. Nothing can stop what is coming. The difference is they know what's coming and when. The masses don't. For humanity, likely a 90% extinction event. They plan to be in the 10%. As far as they are concerned, we are toast either way, and we are in the way for when they go underground. There is your 16-year plan.