museful mopings

In a castle dungeon in Nuremberg, Germany is a huge, medieval iron lady torture device. Shaped like a woman, the iron lady opens to reveal huge spikes, once used for torture and death.

Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush.

You [don't] know jack shit about politics. (Inclusion of don't is optional, as its omission is construed in context as “All that you know about [whatever matter] amounts to jack shit.”)